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M01.8 COMMON GROUND

The questions that shaped AI

From a 1950 guessing game to ChatGPT, AI has swung between bold bets, bitter winters, and sudden breakthroughs. Get the whole story, and a map of what you'll build next.

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Lesson overview

From a 1950 guessing game to ChatGPT, AI has swung between bold bets, bitter winters, and sudden breakthroughs. Get the whole story, and a map of what you'll build next.

What you’ll explore

  • Compare historical AI approaches and connect milestones to bounded evidence rather than a story of total replacement.
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Original explanations, connected to the research.

Dartmouth research proposal — August 31, 1955McCulloch and Pitts — a logical calculus (1943)Turing — Computing Machinery and Intelligence (1950)SRI — Shakey the RobotRumelhart, Hinton, and Williams — back-propagating errors (1986)Krizhevsky, Sutskever, and Hinton — ImageNet classification (2012)Vaswani and colleagues — Attention Is All You Need (2017)Ouyang et al. — Training language models to follow instructions with human feedback (2022)
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