AI History Episodes
Understand the historical context of artificial intelligence, tracing its journey from inception to its current role as a transformative technology in society.
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July 3, 2026
70 Years of AI History in Under 8 Minutes | EP 2
In 1956, ten researchers at Dartmouth College promised to build a thinking machine in two months. Seventy years later, ChatGPT hit 100 million users faster than any product in history, DeepSeek wiped half a trillion dollars off Nvidia in a single day, and autonomous AI agents started booking flights, filing taxes, and writing code. This episode is the complete story of how we got here. Alex Smith, founder of Instant AI and host of Super Confident AI, walks through the full history of artif...