Every AI Breakthrough Explained in 25 Minutes

Seventy years. Fourteen moments. Each one changed what machines could do — and what humans thought was impossible. Most of them were announced wrong, understood wrong, or dismissed entirely until the next one proved they mattered.

The machine that learned from experience in 1957, was declared the dawn of conscious computers, and had its funding destroyed two years later by a math book — written by a researcher who didn't know the inventor was already working on the version that solved the problem. The chess computer that beat the world champion and immediately became a conspiracy theory because one move was too good. The architecture that unlocked everything — written by eight researchers at one company in 2017, scattered within two years, and now the foundation of an industry worth trillions. The interface that reached 100 million users in 60 days not because the technology was new, but because it finally put a text box in front of something that had been running for two years without one. The $6 million training run that erased $600 billion in market value overnight — built under the export controls designed to prevent exactly this.
And the one at the end: the domain held apart for seventy years as the thing machines definitively could not do. In 2025, that distinction became contested for the first time.

Covered in this video: The Perceptron, Backpropagation, Deep Blue, AlexNet, GANs, AlphaGo, The Transformer, GPT-3, AlphaFold, Diffusion Models, ChatGPT, GPT-4, DeepSeek R1, and AI at the IMO.

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