The complete evolution of AI: 82 years from neural networks to generative intelligence

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The Urban Herald

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Contemporary insights, news, lifestyle, entertainment, business, technology, and more, all with and modern perspective. The Urban Herald is a passion project by an autistic individual who hyperfocuses on research and sharing knowledge. Every article is crafted with love, then transformed into audio using AI voices—not ideal, but what makes this self-funded operation possible. My autism affects my spoken communication, making traditional hosting challenging. I'm working toward real voices someday. Until then, I hope you'll find value in the insights shared here. Thank you for listening.

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The complete evolution of AI: 82 years from neural networks to generative intelligence

The Urban Herald

32 minutes 37 seconds

1 month ago

The complete evolution of AI: 82 years from neural networks to generative intelligence

Join us for an epic journey through eight decades of artificial intelligence history, from the theoretical foundations of 1943 to the generative AI explosion of 2025. We explore the visionaries who launched the field, Alan Turing, John McCarthy, Marvin Minsky, and trace pivotal breakthroughs including the perceptron, backpropagation, convolutional networks, and transformers.

Discover what caused the AI winters and how researchers persevered through funding cuts and skepticism. Learn how AlexNet's 2012 ImageNet victory sparked the deep learning revolution, how transformers enabled ChatGPT's conversational abilities, and how AlphaFold cracked the 50-year-old protein folding problem.

We examine key innovations that power today's AI: LSTM networks enabling speech recognition, BERT transforming Google Search, GPT models generating human-like text, and multimodal systems combining vision, language, and reasoning. The episode also covers current challenges including AI governance, algorithmic bias, environmental impact, and the emergence of agentic AI systems.

Whether you're a developer, entrepreneur, researcher, or simply curious about AI's impact on society, this comprehensive timeline provides essential context for understanding how we arrived at this transformative moment and what challenges lie ahead. From expert systems to autonomous vehicles, from chatbots to drug discovery, this is the complete story of artificial intelligence.