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.

7 episodes, all primary-sourced

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Episodes

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1
1943-1956

The Idea of a Thinking Machine

From the first mathematical neuron to the workshop that named artificial intelligence.

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2
1958-1973

The Perceptron and the First Winter

A machine that learns, the backlash that froze the field, and the report that cut the funding.

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3
1974-1989

The Backprop Revival

A forgotten thesis, a physics detour, and the algorithm that taught networks to learn in layers.

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4
1990-2011

The Quiet Proving Years

LSTM, Deep Blue, reading checks at scale, and the dataset that changed everything.

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5
2012-2016

The Deep Learning Explosion

AlexNet ignites the boom; machines learn Atari from pixels and beat the world at Go.

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6
2017-2021

Transformers and the LLM Era

Attention is all you need - the architecture behind everything, and the scaling laws that followed.

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7
2022-today

The Age of Assistants

ChatGPT, Claude, Nobel Prizes for neural networks, and the race to reasoning machines.

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