The Entire History of AI in 24 Minutes

In 1955, John McCarthy said a small group of smart people could teach a computer to think in one summer. It took sixty-five years. Along the way, people were promised robot butlers and got nothing. The money vanished twice, so badly they called it a winter. A world chess champion accused a computer of cheating. A Go legend lost to a machine and then quit the game for good. And in 2020, with the whole planet stuck at home, a computer quietly learned to write. This is the full story, from the Dartmouth summer of 1956 to GPT-3. 0:00 Two months 0:53 1. The summer of '56 2:41 2. The first wins 4:08 3. The Perceptron 5:16 4. Way too confident 6:53 5. Winter is coming 8:34 6. The comeback 9:41 7. The crash 10:50 8. The believers 12:19 9. The brain's last stand 14:23 10. AI goes undercover 16:02 11. The big bang 18:09 12. The gold rush 19:18 13. Move 37 20:55 14. Attention is all you need 22:26 15. Two months