The story of AI • past to future
The history of AI, explained: with articles, glossary, timelines, and sources.
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Deep Blue vs. Kasparov: the match that shook the world (1997)
IBM's chess computer defeated the world champion in six games, a media spectacle that proved machines could outplay humans, and sparked a debate that never quite ended.
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The second AI winter: how the boom turned to bust (1987–1993)
Expert systems collapsed, Lisp machines became obsolete, governments cut funding, and AI entered years of disillusionment that nearly killed the field.
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Expert systems: when AI became a business (1980s)
Rule-based expert systems promised to bottle human expertise into software, they fuelled a billion-dollar boom, then collapsed into the second AI winter.