| The early history of AI/cybernetics seems poorly documented. I guess it depends on what you mean by "documented". If you're talking about a historical retrospective, written after the fact by a documentarian / historian, then you're probably correct. But in terms of primary sources, I'd say it's fairly well documented. A lot of the original documents related to the earlier days of AI are readily available[1]. And there are at least a few books from years ago that provide a sort of overview of the field at that moment in time. In aggregate, they provide at least a moderate coverage of the history of the field. Consider also that the term "History of Artificial Inteligence" has its own Wikipedia page[2] which strikes me as reasonably comprehensive. [1]: Here I refer to things like MIT CSAIL "AI Memo series"[3] and related[4][5], the Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on AI[6], the CMU AI Repository[7], etc. [2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_artificial_intellig... [3]: https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/5460/browse?type=dateis... [4]: https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/39813 [5]: https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/5461 [6]: https://www.ijcai.org/all_proceedings [7]: https://www.cs.cmu.edu/Groups/AI/html/rep_info/intro.html |