History of AI

- Alan Turing’s story is a fascinating blend of brilliant breakthroughs, heartbreaking prejudice, and a legacy that continues to shape our digital world.

- Explore the 1950s AI dream: the General Problem Solver. It aimed to solve everything. What happened, and what did we learn for AI's future?

- Before silicon chips, ancient myths explored AI. From Hephaestus's intelligent golden maidens to Talos, the bronze guardian, and Pygmalion's love-infused statue, humanity's quest to create artificial life is a story as old as imagination itself.

- In 1983, a Soviet officer ignored his AI system’s nuclear alert—and saved the world. As AI invades modern warfare, his story forces us to ask: Can machines make moral decisions, or are we losing the human judgment we can't afford to automate?

- The Mechanical Turk, an 18th-century automaton chess player, sparked debates about intelligence and illusion, paralleling today's AI technologies like Amazon's MTurk, highlighting the ongoing relationship between human creativity and machine performance in defining intelligence.

- The story of Philip K. Dick's android explores the intersection of technology and philosophy, highlighting its mysterious disappearance and how it embodied questions of identity, reality, and consciousness.