File 02 · Milestones
Not a sudden awakening. A long, patient assembly.
Modern AI arrived through decades of partial victories: symbolic systems, statistical methods, larger datasets, faster chips, and interfaces that finally made it feel immediate.
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1950
Archived
The question is asked
Alan Turing asks whether machines can think, and proposes a test for telling the difference.
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1956
Archived
The field gets a name
At Dartmouth, researchers formalise the idea that intelligence can be described precisely enough to be built.
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1997
Archived
A grandmaster falls
IBM's Deep Blue beats world champion Garry Kasparov at chess. Narrow, symbolic, and impossible to ignore.
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2012
Archived
The networks wake up
Deep neural networks shatter image-recognition benchmarks, and research priorities shift almost overnight.
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Now
Running
It enters every workflow
AI becomes an interface for writing, coding, searching, designing and learning, in the hands of ordinary people.
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