1943
The First Neuron
McCulloch and Pitts show that a simplified brain cell is nothing more than a logic gate. Thought, it turns out, can be drawn as a circuit.
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Seventy years of sparks
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1950
The Imitation Game
Alan Turing asks the question that will haunt a century: “Can machines think?” His answer — does it matter if you can't tell the difference?
1956
Dartmouth, NH
A summer workshop coins the term “artificial intelligence.” Ten men, one hypothesis, and the birth certificate of an entire scientific field.
1997
Deep Blue
IBM's machine defeats Garry Kasparov, the world chess champion. Humanity keeps its dignity for exactly six games before the inevitable.
2012
The AlexNet Moment
Two GPUs, sixty million parameters, one ImageNet contest. Deep learning doesn't win — it detonates, and computer vision is never the same.
2017
Attention Is All You Need
Eight Google researchers publish the transformer architecture. Its title becomes prophecy: attention — literally — is all modern AI needs.
2022
The Conversational Explosion
ChatGPT reaches one hundred million users in two months — the fastest adoption of any technology in human history. Your grandmother asks it for recipes.
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You are here
Multimodal models, autonomous agents, machines that reason step by step. The archive ends where the future begins.
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