A Brief History of Artificial Intelligence
by FreeLibrary.ai
From Turing's thought experiments to GPT-5 and autonomous agents, this book traces the full arc of artificial intelligence through the people, breakthroughs, failures, and pivotal moments that shaped the field. An engaging narrative history for anyone curious about how we got here — and where AI might be headed next.
14 chapters
Chapters (14)
- 1.The Dream of Thinking Machines
- 2.Turing and the Birth of an Idea
- 3.The Dartmouth Conference
- 4.The Golden Age
- 5.The First AI Winter
- 6.Expert Systems and the Second Wave
- 7.The Second Winter
- 8.The Quiet Revolution
- 9.Deep Blue to Watson
- 10.The Deep Learning Explosion
- 11.The Transformer Era
- 12.ChatGPT and the AI Mainstream
- 13.The Agent Era
- 14.What History Tells Us About What's Next