Core ML Concepts · beginner · concept 24 of 311 · Updated Nov 4, 2026
History of AI
AI has moved in waves of excitement and disappointment since the 1956 Dartmouth workshop: hand-written logic, expert systems, two funding collapses known as AI winters, statistical learning, then deep learning from 2012 and generative models from 2022. Knowing this history helps you judge today's claims, because bold timelines and sudden breakthroughs have both happened before.
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