Paradigm Map

AI Technical Lineage

Technologies rarely appear from nowhere. They migrate between old problems and new constraints. This lineage map reveals how AI paradigms inherit from one another.

AI Technical LineageKnowledgeengineeringFrom rules to dataRepresentationlearningSequencemodelingFoundationmodelapplicationsConnecting external knowledgeToolsandloopsReliability evaluationSymbolic AIsymbolicExpert SystemssymbolicStatistical LearningstatisticalNeural NetworksneuralTransformerfoundation modelRAGfoundation modelLLM Systemsfoundation modelAgentagentSafety / Evalsafety / evaluation

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Start With Paradigms, Then Explore Demos

From left to right, AI moves from rules and search to statistical learning, then to neural networks and foundation models. RAG and agents are not isolated applications; they are systematic ways for modern models to connect knowledge, tools, and task loops.