📜 A Brief History of AI
The Transformer Revolution: The Architecture That Changed Everything 🧠
Last Updated: June 24, 2025Introduction: The Final Breakthrough 🤔 By the mid-2010s, AI had the key ingredients for success: the data-driven approach of Machine Learning , powerful neural networks, and increasing computing power. Yet, one major hurdle remained: context. For AI to truly understand human language, it needed to grasp the intricate relationships between words in a sentence, even...
The Rise of Machine Learning: A New Paradigm 📈
Last Updated: June 23, 2025Introduction: Learning from Experience, Not Rules 🤔 The AI Winters taught the research community a hard but valuable lesson: you cannot possibly write enough rules to describe the complexity of the real world. A new approach was needed. Instead of trying to program a computer with intelligence, what if you could design it to learn...
The AI Winters: When Promises Outpaced Reality ❄️
Last Updated: June 23, 2025Introduction: After the Gold Rush, a Chill Sets In 🤔 The boundless optimism that erupted from the Dartmouth Workshop fueled a “golden age” of AI research. 1 Researchers made bold predictions, and governments invested heavily, certain that thinking machines were just over the horizon. But reality proved to be far more complex than anticipated. The...
The Dartmouth Workshop: The Birth of a Field 💡
Last Updated: June 23, 2025Introduction: From Scattered Dreams to a Unified Field 🤔 For centuries, the dream of a thinking machine was a philosophical puzzle scattered across different disciplines. But in the summer of 1956, that changed forever. A small group of visionary scientists came together with a bold, shared ambition: to lay the scientific foundation for creating true...
The Dream of an Artificial Mind: AI’s Philosophical Origins 🏛️
Last Updated: June 23, 2025Introduction: Before Computers, There Was an Idea 🤔 Long before the first microchip was invented, humanity was captivated by a powerful and persistent dream: the creation of an artificial mind. The field we now call Artificial Intelligence didn’t spring from computer labs; its roots run deep into the soil of mythology, philosophy, and mathematics. To...