# AI — The Road to General Intelligence

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Updated: 2026-05-15T22:19:45.266Z
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## Summary

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..

## Slide Outline

1. AI The road to general intelligence.
2. McCulloch & Pitts: the artificial neuron.
3. The Dartmouth Workshop coins "artificial intelligence."
4. Rosenblatt's Perceptron: a learning machine.
5. Minsky & Papert show perceptron limits. The first AI winter follows.
6. Backpropagation re-emerges.
7. Deep Blue beats Garry Kasparov.
8. AlexNet wins ImageNet. The deep learning era begins.
9. "Attention Is All You Need."
10. GPT-3: 175B parameters and the scaling laws.
11. ChatGPT launches. 100 million users in two months.
12. The open questions.
13. Further reading and watching.

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