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One in-depth post per episode, right here on centerconsulting.com, with every claim linked to its original source.
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The Story of AI
How we got here: a multi-part journey through the history of artificial intelligence, from a 1943 paper about neurons to the AI assistants of today.
One story, three formats
The same series, wherever you like to follow along.
Listen to it
A podcast edition of each episode, planned for Spotify and other podcast platforms.
Watch it
Video episodes on YouTube, walking the timeline with narration and visuals.
Planned episodes
Draft outline - episode titles and breaks may change as production starts.
1
1943-1956
The Idea of a Thinking Machine
From the first mathematical neuron to the workshop that named artificial intelligence.
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.
3
1974-1989
The Backprop Revival
A forgotten thesis, a physics detour, and the algorithm that taught networks to learn in layers.
4
1990-2011
The Quiet Proving Years
LSTM, Deep Blue, reading checks at scale, and the dataset that changed everything.
5
2012-2016
The Deep Learning Explosion
AlexNet ignites the boom; machines learn Atari from pixels and beat the world at Go.
6
2017-2021
Transformers and the LLM Era
Attention is all you need - the architecture behind everything, and the scaling laws that followed.
7
2022-today
The Age of Assistants
ChatGPT, Claude, Nobel Prizes for neural networks, and the race to reasoning machines.
Made with AI, sourced like a library
We are open about this: this series is produced with AI. The research, the writing, the narration - AI does the heavy lifting, with human review before anything is published. That is not a footnote; it is the point. CenterConsulting builds software with AI every day, and this series is the same method applied to storytelling.
What keeps it honest is the foundation: every episode is built on the AI Library, our knowledge base where every fact links back to a primary source - the original paper, the official announcement, the actual record. Each episode's notes will list its sources, so you can check everything yourself.
While you wait, the whole timeline is already here: browse the AI Library - 55 primary-sourced entries from 1943 to today.