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
Rating★★★★★ 4.8 (124)
Includes Amazon
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
2Book One – The Artificial Dawn
3Copyright © 2025 Gathu Kamau
4Dedication
5Part One: The Dreamers & Theories
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6Part Two: The First Waves
7Part Three: The Seeds of Deep Learning
8Chapter 1 – In the Beginning, There Were Ideas
9The Age of Reason
10The Age of Machines
11The Idea That Endures
12Chapter 2 – The Mechanical Precursors
13The Greek Vision: The Soul of Motion
14The Ingenious Machines of the East
15The Renaissance Awakening
16The Age of Precision and Wonder
17The Legacy of the Precursors
18Chapter 3 – The Mind as a Machine
19The Mechanization of the Soul
20The Arithmetic of Reason
21The Clockwork Universe
22From Philosophy to Physiology
23The Birth of the Mechanistic Mind
24The Mirror and the Machine
25Chapter 4 – A Summer in Dartmouth
26The Proposal
27The Setting
28The Experiments
29The Mood of the Moment
30The First Sparks
31The Legacy of Dartmouth
32Chapter 5 – The First Machines That Learned
33The Checkers Experiment
34A New Kind of Intelligence
35The Rise of Neural Thinking
36The Weight of Expectation
37The Dawn of Machine Learning
38Chapter 6 – The Symbolic Dream
39The Age of Logic
40The Voice of ELIZA
41The Dream of Understanding
42The Cracks Beneath the Dream
43Faith in Symbols
44The Symbolic Sunset
45Chapter 7 – The Winter Descends
46The Dream Meets Reality
47The Critique of the Perceptrons
48The Cold Silence of the Labs
49The Survivors of the Cold
50The Lessons of the Cold
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