The history of ideas, people, and moments that shaped artificial intelligence.
AI History
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Jul 20, 2026
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Frank Rosenblatt and Marvin Minsky shared a classroom before they shared the argument that froze neural network research for a generation.
Jul 13, 2026
Months before Expert Systems ever hit a balance sheet, the hardware behind them was already fracturing — over a disagreement that had nothing to do with technology.
Jul 6, 2026
MYCIN passed its test. Medicine still said no.
Jun 29, 2026
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The philosopher the field tried to forget.
Jun 15, 2026
5 min read
He called it a warning. The field called it a breakthrough.
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Jun 10, 2026
3 min read
The backstory the video doesn't have time to tell.
Jun 8, 2026
The Turing Test wasn't built to prove machines could think. It was built to make the question obsolete.
Jun 7, 2026
Three men who never met each other built the blueprint for artificial intelligence.
In 1950, a mathematician asked something so simple it broke philosophy.