The History of AI – From Imagination to Reality (Page 1)

Published on August 18, 2025

📜 Welcome to Page 1 – The History of AI

Before diving deeper into GPT, let’s look back at the fascinating journey of Artificial Intelligence. AI didn’t just appear overnight — it evolved through decades of innovation, imagination, and breakthroughs.

🧠 The Origins of AI

1950s: Alan Turing proposed the idea of thinking machines. He introduced the famous Turing Test.
1956: The term "Artificial Intelligence" was coined at the Dartmouth Conference by John McCarthy — often called the "Father of AI".
1960s–70s: Early AI focused on solving logic problems and playing games like chess.

📉 AI Winters – Setbacks Along the Way

AI development faced several challenges due to limited computing power, high expectations, and lack of data. This led to two major "AI winters" where funding and interest dropped:

🔹 First AI Winter (1974–1980) – Slow progress & unmet promises
🔹 Second AI Winter (1987–1993) – Expert systems failed to scale

🚀 Rise of Modern AI

2010s: Advances in machine learning, deep learning, and big data revived AI.
2012: Breakthrough in image recognition using deep neural networks (AlexNet).
2018: OpenAI released GPT-1 — the start of the Generative Pre-trained Transformer models.

📈 GPT and the Generative AI Boom

From 2018 onward, GPT models changed the game:

🧠 GPT-2 (2019): Bigger, smarter, more capable
🧠 GPT-3 (2020): 175 billion parameters – shockingly powerful
🧠 ChatGPT (2022): Friendly chat interface powered by GPT
🧠 GPT-4 and GPT-4o (2023–2024): Multimodal, can understand images, audio, and more

🔚 From Dreams to Reality

AI has grown from a science fiction idea to a tool used daily by millions. We’re living in a new AI era — and this course will help you make the most of it!