The Evolution of Artificial Intelligence

A journey from the first mechanical dreams to the digital singularity.

The Origins

From Babbage's engines to Turing's logic. The dream of thinking machines.

Ada Lovelace wrote the first algorithm. Alan Turing defined the universal machine.

The Neural Revolution

The rise of connectionism. Perceptrons, backpropagation, and deep learning.

Geoffrey Hinton and the AI Winter. The AlexNet breakthrough in 2012.

Generative Era

Machines that create. Transformers, diffusion models, and large language models.

Attention is All You Need. ChatGPT and Stable Diffusion change the world.

The Future: AGI

Beyond human capability. Singularity, superintelligence, and the unknown.

Will AI possess consciousness? The alignment problem and safety.