THE ARTIFICIAL DAWN
CODE TO CONSCIOUSNESS- A THREE PART SERIES ON THE JOURNEY OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCEBy Gathu Kamau
Length1h 30m
About this audiobook
Artificial Dawn: Code to Consciousness is the first volume in The Artificial Intelligence Trilogy — a sweeping chronicle of humanity’s quest to create intelligence in its own image.
From ancient myths and mechanical dreams to the birth of neural networks and the rise of deep learning, this book traces the evolution of artificial intelligence as both science and story. Through vivid narration and historical depth, Gathu Kamau explores how human imagination gave birth to machines that now imagine for themselves.
Across twelve captivating chapters, Artificial Dawn reveals the people, philosophies, and pivotal moments that shaped AI — from Ada Lovelace’s first algorithms to AlphaGo’s creative triumphs.
It’s not just a history of machines, but a reflection of humanity’s own awakening — from code to consciousness.
Audiobook details
GenreTechnology, History
Length1 hr 30 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateSep 15, 2025
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Artificial Dawn: Code to Consciousness
45Chapter 7 – The Winter Descends
2Book One – The Artificial Dawn
46The Dream Meets Reality
3Copyright © 2025 Gathu Kamau
47The Critique of the Perceptrons
4Dedication
48The Cold Silence of the Labs
5Part One: The Dreamers & Theories
49The Survivors of the Cold
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6Part Two: The First Waves
50The Lessons of the Cold
7Part Three: The Seeds of Deep Learning
51The Human Cost
8Chapter 1 – In the Beginning, There Were Ideas
52The Thaw to Come
9The Age of Reason
53Chapter 8 – The Knowledge Age
10The Age of Machines
54The Spark of Revival
11The Idea That Endures
55The Rise of the Expert Systems
12Chapter 2 – The Mechanical Precursors
56The Engineering of Thought
13The Greek Vision: The Soul of Motion
57The Limits of Knowledge
14The Ingenious Machines of the East
58Japan’s Grand Vision
15The Renaissance Awakening
59The Philosophy of Pragmatism
16The Age of Precision and Wonder
60Chapter 9 – The Learning Machines Reborn
17The Legacy of the Precursors
61The Return of the Neurons
18Chapter 3 – The Mind as a Machine
62The Spark of a New Paradigm
19The Mechanization of the Soul
63The Early Experiments
20The Arithmetic of Reason
64The Data Awakening
21The Clockwork Universe
65The Quiet Revolution
22From Philosophy to Physiology
66The Philosophy of Connection
23The Birth of the Mechanistic Mind
67Chapter 10 – The Age of Data
24The Mirror and the Machine
68The Awakening of the Machines
25Chapter 4 – A Summer in Dartmouth
69The Era of Big Data
26The Proposal
70The Language of the World
27The Setting
71The Double-Edged Revolution
28The Experiments
72The Human Algorithm
29The Mood of the Moment
73Chapter 11 – The Deep Learning Revolution
30The First Sparks
74The Return of the Dream
31The Legacy of Dartmouth
75The Rise of Neural Renaissance
32Chapter 5 – The First Machines That Learned
76When Machines Began to Imagine
33The Checkers Experiment
77The Age of Neural Language
34A New Kind of Intelligence
78The Mirror of Creation
35The Rise of Neural Thinking
79The Awakening of Awareness
36The Weight of Expectation
80Chapter 12 – The Singularity Horizon
37The Dawn of Machine Learning
81The Edge of Understanding
38Chapter 6 – The Symbolic Dream
82The Age of Companionship
39The Age of Logic
83The Shadow of Power
40The Voice of ELIZA
84The Quest for Consciousness
41The Dream of Understanding
85The Mirror of Humanity
42The Cracks Beneath the Dream
86The Horizon Beyond
43Faith in Symbols
87Closing Quote
44The Symbolic Sunset
88End of Book One — Artificial Dawn: Code to Consciousness
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