The Story of Artificial Intelligence
Chronicle·Audio available

The Story of Artificial Intelligence

The complete history of machine intelligence — from Turing's dream to today's frontier models, and the questions that still haunt us.

20 chapters · 144 min total

Part I— The Dream Before the Machine

1

The Golems Children

9 min read

2

The Clockwork Universe

7 min read

3

The Analytical Engines Ghost

8 min read

Part II— The Foundations

4

The Turing Prophecy

8 min read

5

The Cybernetic Circle

9 min read

6

The Summer Where It Began

8 min read

7

The Potemkin Spring

8 min read

Part III— The Winters

8

The Lighthill Verdict

7 min read

9

The Expert System Boom

7 min read

10

The Second Freeze

7 min read

11

The Connectionists Vigil

8 min read

Part IV— The Learning Turn

12

The Quiet Revolution

8 min read

13

The Imagenet Moment

8 min read

14

The Great Acceleration

9 min read

Part V— The Present Moment

15

Attention Is All You Need

8 min read

16

The Image Generators

7 min read

17

The Alignment Anxiety

8 min read

18

The Workers Behind The Curtain

8 min read

19

The Fracturing Consensus

6 min read

Part VI— The Questions Ahead

20

The Unfinished Story

6 min read

← All books

Select a track to start listening