The Story of AI
How we got here: a multi-part journey through the history of artificial intelligence, from a 1943 paper about neurons to the AI assistants of today.
The articles
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The Idea of a Thinking Machine
From the first mathematical neuron to the workshop that named artificial intelligence.
Read the article ->The Perceptron and the First Winter
A machine that learns, the backlash that froze the field, and the report that cut the funding.
Read the article ->The Backprop Revival
A forgotten thesis, a physics detour, and the algorithm that taught networks to learn in layers.
Read the article ->The Quiet Proving Years
LSTM, Deep Blue, reading checks at scale, and the dataset that changed everything.
Read the article ->The Deep Learning Explosion
AlexNet ignites the boom; machines learn Atari from pixels and beat the world at Go.
Read the article ->Transformers and the LLM Era
Attention is all you need - the architecture behind everything, and the scaling laws that followed.
Read the article ->The Age of Assistants
ChatGPT, Claude, Nobel Prizes for neural networks, and the race to reasoning machines.
Read the article ->Made with AI, sourced like a library
We are open about this: this series is produced with AI. The research, the writing, the narration - AI does the heavy lifting, with human review before anything is published. That is not a footnote; it is the point. CenterConsulting builds software with AI every day, and this series is the same method applied to storytelling.
What keeps it honest is the foundation: every article is built on the AI Library, our knowledge base where every fact links back to a primary source - the original paper, the official announcement, the actual record. Each article's notes list its sources, so you can check everything yourself.
The whole timeline is already here: browse the AI Library - 2,636 primary-sourced entries from 1943 to today.