A Russian Mathematician Started an Argument in 1913. AI Is Still Using His Answer

In 1913, a Russian mathematician named Andrey Markov wanted to win an argument — so he counted 20,000 letters by hand from a Pushkin poem. That tally became the first Markov chain: a method for predicting the next item in a sequence based on the current one. As Daina Bouquin, Sr. Developer Relations Engineer at Anaconda explains — Claude Shannon extended the idea to full English sentences in 1948. And the language models behind ChatGPT and Claude? Still running on the same core principle — guess the next symbol from the previous ones. A century-old idea, still picking the next word on your screen. 🔗 Learn more: Advance AI with Open Source | Anaconda #AI #MachineLearning #Python #DataScience #LLM #MarkovChain #GenerativeAI #MLHistory #Anaconda