AI: Origins to Frontiers

A historical course on how artificial intelligence was founded, why its methods rose and fell, who shaped the field, and what current frontier systems suggest about the next era.

5 sections ยท 10 lessons

Course outline

Founding Questions

  1. Turing's Question
  2. Dartmouth Names AI

Symbolic Era

  1. Symbols First
  2. Expert Systems Boom
  3. Rewrite the Museum Label

Learning from Data

  1. Winters and Statistics
  2. Deep Learning Returns

Foundation Models

  1. ImageNet Changes Vision
  2. Transformers Scale Language
  3. Explain a Breakthrough

Where Next

  1. ChatGPT Mainstreams AI
  2. Govern the Trajectory
  3. Forecast from History

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