A History of Artificial Intelligence
By Atlas MeyersThe Evolution of Automated Reasoning and Machine LearningAbout this book
Summary
The history of Artificial Intelligence is the autobiography of the human mind. From the clockwork automata of the Enlightenment to the generative power of Large Language Models, this volume traces the radical evolution of automated reasoning. It dissects the intellectual wars between the Architects of Logic and the Gardeners of Neural Networks, revealing how the field moved from the brittle certainty of Expert Systems to the opaque intuition of Deep Learning. A History of Artificial Intelligence distills complex technical revolutions (Backpropagation, Transformers, and Reinforcement Learning) into lucid, elegant prose. It explores the "Black Box" of modern algorithms, the philosophical stakes of the Alignment Problem, and the future of synthetic thought. This is not a textbook. It is a framework for understanding the speciation event of our time. For readers who demand depth over hype, this is the definitive map of the machine age.Book information
Rating
★★★★ (4.5) (2)
Genre
History, Technology
Length
1 hr 59 mins
Publish date
Dec 12, 2025
Language
English
About the Author
Atlas Meyers
Table of Contents
1Introduction
8Chapter 7: Neural Networks and the Return of Connectionism
2Chapter 1: Early Automata and the Formalization of Logic
9Chapter 8: Machine Learning and Statistical Inference
3Chapter 2: Alan Turing and the Theory of Computation
10Chapter 9: Deep Learning and Layered Abstraction
4Chapter 3: Cybernetics and the Modeling of Biological Systems
11Chapter 10: Natural Language Processing and the Transformer
5Chapter 4: The Dartmouth Conference and the Definition of the Field
12Chapter 11: Large Language Models and Generative AI
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