How Did AI Get Here? From Alan Turing to ChatGPT (1950–2026)

In 1950, Alan Turing asked: can machines think? 76 years later, over a billion people use ChatGPT every week. This explainer walks through the whole story: the birth of AI, two AI winters, machines beating world champions, the deep learning breakthrough, the transformer, ChatGPT, and where AI stands in 2026. Is it real this time, or another bubble? 0:00 Intro 0:55 1 · Can machines think? 1:40 2 · The birth of AI 3:20 3 · The AI winters 5:02 4 · Machines beat champions 6:24 5 · Deep learning wakes up 7:29 6 · The transformer 8:57 7 · The ChatGPT moment 10:15 8 · AI in 2026 11:43 9 · Hype or real? Sources: Dartmouth proposal & Turing: https://www.techradar.com/pro/the-usd... Perceptron (Cornell): https://news.cornell.edu/node/313946 ELIZA (CBC): https://www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks/eliza... AI winters: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_winter Deep Blue vs Kasparov: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Bl... AlphaGo vs Lee Sedol: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AlphaGo... AlexNet & ImageNet: https://dev.to/multigrid/imagenet-and... Attention Is All You Need: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attenti... GPT-3 (InfoQ): https://www.infoq.com/news/2020/06/op... ChatGPT user stats: https://technologychecker.io/blog/cha... 2024 Nobel Prizes (TechCrunch): https://techcrunch.com/2024/10/09/dee... Stanford AI Index 2026 takeaways (UNU): https://c3.unu.edu/blog/2026-stanford... #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #AIHistory #ChatGPT #AISignal