The History of Artificial Intelligence

From Early Foundations to Agentic AI

Governor House IT Initiative Programme - Quarter 4
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Full Presentation

100+ comprehensive slides covering the complete history of AI from 1940s to 2025
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AI Timeline

Detailed chronological timeline with all major milestones and breakthroughs
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How LLMs Work

In-depth explanation of Large Language Models based on MIT Sloan insights
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Major Breakthroughs

12 key technological innovations that enabled modern AI systems
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Agentic AI Era

The evolution from reactive chatbots to proactive autonomous agents
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Study Guide

Complete guide on how to use and study this material effectively

✨ What You'll Learn

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AI Evolution

75 years of AI history from Turing Test to ChatGPT

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LLM Fundamentals

How transformers and attention mechanisms work

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Technical Breakthroughs

Transformer, scaling laws, MoE, and more

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Agentic AI

From reactive systems to autonomous agents

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Real Applications

Practical use cases across industries

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Future Trends

Where AI is heading in 2025-2030

📅 Key Milestones in AI History

1950

Turing Test

Alan Turing proposes the imitation game - "Can machines think?"

1956

Dartmouth Conference

Birth of AI as an academic discipline, term "Artificial Intelligence" coined

2012

AlexNet Revolution

Deep learning breakthrough that changed computer vision forever

2017

Transformer Architecture

"Attention Is All You Need" - Foundation of all modern LLMs

2022

ChatGPT Launch

100M users in 2 months - AI goes mainstream

2023+

Agentic AI Era

Autonomous agents with tool use and multi-step reasoning