The History of AI Explained: 75 Years of Trying to Build Thinking Machines
Critical Thinking in the Age of AIShow Notes
Everyone acts like AI just appeared overnight with ChatGPT. But we've been building toward this moment for 75 years and every generation has completely redefined what "artificial intelligence" even means. This episode traces the full history of AI: from Alan Turing's foundational 1950 question through the optimistic Dartmouth Conference, two brutal AI winters, the machine learning revolution, and the generative moment we're in now. But this isn't just a tech timeline. No, I think it's a story about what we think intelligence is, why we keep building AI in our own image, and what happens when those systems don't transcend our limitations the way we hoped. I reference a previous episode on the appearance of intelligence, so make sure you listen to that one as well!
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