The Story of AI - Podcast
The Story of AI as a podcast - a conversation about each article in the series, generated from the same primary sources. Every episode, in one place.
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The Idea of a Thinking Machine
From the first mathematical neuron to the workshop that named artificial intelligence.
Read the source article ->The Perceptron and the First Winter
A machine that learns, the backlash that froze the field, and the report that cut the funding.
Read the source article ->The Backprop Revival
A forgotten thesis, a physics detour, and the algorithm that taught networks to learn in layers.
Read the source article ->The Quiet Proving Years
LSTM, Deep Blue, reading checks at scale, and the dataset that changed everything.
Read the source article ->The Deep Learning Explosion
AlexNet ignites the boom; machines learn Atari from pixels and beat the world at Go.
Read the source article ->Transformers and the LLM Era
Attention is all you need - the architecture behind everything, and the scaling laws that followed.
Read the source article ->The Age of Assistants
ChatGPT, Claude, Nobel Prizes for neural networks, and the race to reasoning machines.
Read the source article ->Prefer to read? See the full series - all seven articles, each one you can read or listen to.