People have been building "thinking machines" since the 1940s, and they've been predicting human-level AI
"within 20 years" for almost as long. Scroll through 80 years of breakthroughs, big promises, and what
actually happened.
One milestone per screen. Use ← → or Space, and Esc to exit.
So what is AI, then?
Notice that every era above built a completely different kind of AI: logic rules, game-playing
search, learning from examples, neural networks, and language models. Chatbots are only the newest branch.
You've probably already used five other kinds of AI today without noticing.