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    <description><![CDATA[How we got here: the history of artificial intelligence, from a 1943 paper about a single neuron to the AI assistants of today. Each episode is told as a story, with every claim traced back to a primary source. Openly produced with AI by DevThrottle. Read the articles and check the sources at https://devthrottle.com/ai-library/series.]]></description>
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      <title>Episode 1: The Idea of a Thinking Machine</title>
      <description><![CDATA[It began not with a computer but with a teenage runaway asleep in a Chicago park - and one question he could not shake: what if thinking is just logic?

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      <itunes:summary><![CDATA[It began not with a computer but with a teenage runaway asleep in a Chicago park - and one question he could not shake: what if thinking is just logic?

The Story of AI is openly produced with AI by DevThrottle, with every claim traced to a primary source. Read this episode and check the sources at https://devthrottle.com/ai-library/series/1-the-idea-of-a-thinking-machine.]]></itunes:summary>
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      <title>Episode 2: The Perceptron and the First Winter</title>
      <description><![CDATA[In 1958 the newspapers promised a machine that would soon walk, talk, and be conscious. What followed was the field's first boom, its first crash, and a forgotten thesis that already held the way out.

The Story of AI is openly produced with AI by DevThrottle, with every claim traced to a primary source. Read this episode and check the sources at https://devthrottle.com/ai-library/series/2-the-perceptron-and-the-first-winter.]]></description>
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The Story of AI is openly produced with AI by DevThrottle, with every claim traced to a primary source. Read this episode and check the sources at https://devthrottle.com/ai-library/series/2-the-perceptron-and-the-first-winter.]]></itunes:summary>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2026 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Episode 3: The Backprop Revival</title>
      <description><![CDATA[The worst feeling in science is being right at the wrong time. The believers who kept neural networks alive through the long winter - and the algorithm that finally proved them right.

The Story of AI is openly produced with AI by DevThrottle, with every claim traced to a primary source. Read this episode and check the sources at https://devthrottle.com/ai-library/series/3-the-backprop-revival.]]></description>
      <itunes:summary><![CDATA[The worst feeling in science is being right at the wrong time. The believers who kept neural networks alive through the long winter - and the algorithm that finally proved them right.

The Story of AI is openly produced with AI by DevThrottle, with every claim traced to a primary source. Read this episode and check the sources at https://devthrottle.com/ai-library/series/3-the-backprop-revival.]]></itunes:summary>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2026 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Episode 4: The Quiet Proving Years</title>
      <description><![CDATA[The famous moment - a machine beating the world chess champion - was a misdirection. The real revolution was being assembled in silence: the data, the chips, and the dataset that changed everything.

The Story of AI is openly produced with AI by DevThrottle, with every claim traced to a primary source. Read this episode and check the sources at https://devthrottle.com/ai-library/series/4-the-quiet-proving-years.]]></description>
      <itunes:summary><![CDATA[The famous moment - a machine beating the world chess champion - was a misdirection. The real revolution was being assembled in silence: the data, the chips, and the dataset that changed everything.

The Story of AI is openly produced with AI by DevThrottle, with every claim traced to a primary source. Read this episode and check the sources at https://devthrottle.com/ai-library/series/4-the-quiet-proving-years.]]></itunes:summary>
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      <title>Episode 5: The Deep Learning Explosion</title>
      <description><![CDATA[In 2012 a single neural network won an image contest by a margin so large it ended the argument. Within four years, machines were generating faces, mastering Go, and remaking the world.

The Story of AI is openly produced with AI by DevThrottle, with every claim traced to a primary source. Read this episode and check the sources at https://devthrottle.com/ai-library/series/5-the-deep-learning-explosion.]]></description>
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      <title>Episode 6: Transformers and the LLM Era</title>
      <description><![CDATA[One 2017 paper, four words - Attention Is All You Need - and a discovery that you could make a machine smarter simply by making it bigger. The era of the large language model begins.

The Story of AI is openly produced with AI by DevThrottle, with every claim traced to a primary source. Read this episode and check the sources at https://devthrottle.com/ai-library/series/6-transformers-and-the-llm-era.]]></description>
      <itunes:summary><![CDATA[One 2017 paper, four words - Attention Is All You Need - and a discovery that you could make a machine smarter simply by making it bigger. The era of the large language model begins.

The Story of AI is openly produced with AI by DevThrottle, with every claim traced to a primary source. Read this episode and check the sources at https://devthrottle.com/ai-library/series/6-transformers-and-the-llm-era.]]></itunes:summary>
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      <title>Episode 7: The Age of Assistants</title>
      <description><![CDATA[A plain white box reached a hundred million people in two months. The finale: how AI became an assistant, the pioneers crowned and alarmed, and the eighty-year arc that led here.

The Story of AI is openly produced with AI by DevThrottle, with every claim traced to a primary source. Read this episode and check the sources at https://devthrottle.com/ai-library/series/7-the-age-of-assistants.]]></description>
      <itunes:summary><![CDATA[A plain white box reached a hundred million people in two months. The finale: how AI became an assistant, the pioneers crowned and alarmed, and the eighty-year arc that led here.

The Story of AI is openly produced with AI by DevThrottle, with every claim traced to a primary source. Read this episode and check the sources at https://devthrottle.com/ai-library/series/7-the-age-of-assistants.]]></itunes:summary>
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