About this deck
From the first artificial neuron sketched in 1943 to large language models trained on most of the public internet — eight decades of one idea, scaled. Key sections include: AI The road to general intelligence.; McCulloch & Pitts: the artificial neuron.; The Dartmouth Workshop coins "artificial intelligence."; Rosenblatt's Perceptron: a learning machine.; Minsky & Papert show perceptron limits. The first AI winter follows.; Backpropagation re-emerges.; Deep Blue beats Garry Kasparov.; AlexNet wins ImageNet. The deep learning era begins.; "Attention Is All You Need."; GPT-3: 175B parameters and the scaling laws..