From a single typewriter chatbot in 1966 to AI that talks, sees, draws, and codes in 2026 — this is how computers learned to think.
Begin the Journey →Imagine a time when computers were brand new, as big as a whole room, and people were just starting to wonder: "Could a machine ever THINK like a person?" That's exactly what scientists asked back in the 1940s and 1950s, and their ideas became the very beginning of Artificial Intelligence.
Eighty years later, AI is in your pocket. It picks the songs you hear, unlocks your phone with your face, helps you with homework, and is starting to drive cars all by itself. Some scientists think it will help cure diseases, slow down climate change, and send humans to Mars. Others worry about what could go wrong if we aren't careful.
This website tells the whole story — from the very first "thinking machines" of the 1940s, through the cold disappointment of the AI Winters, to the explosion of ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini in our own time. And then it asks the most exciting question of all: what comes next?
Nine stops on the journey of artificial intelligence — from typewriters and tubes, to neural networks, to the AI living in your pocket today.
How a Dartmouth summer workshop in 1956 gave birth to "Artificial Intelligence" — and a wobbly robot called Shakey took its first steps.
1943–1974 → 02Twice in 20 years, scientists made giant promises they couldn't keep. Funding froze, labs closed, and AI got put on ice.
1974–1993 → 03Deep Blue beats Kasparov at chess, the Roomba rolls into homes, and a self-driving car called Stanley wins a desert race.
1993–2011 → 04One image-recognition contest in 2012 changes the world. AlphaGo plays a move no human has ever seen. Voice assistants arrive.
2012–2017 → 05Google's "Attention" paper, OpenAI's GPT-1, 2, 3, then DALL-E and ChatGPT. AI learns to write, draw, and chat.
2017–2022 → 06ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Sora — a wild three years where AI exploded into homework, art, video, and even 30-hour coding sessions.
2023–2026 → 07The "invisible" helper that follows you all day — in your phone, the cafeteria menu, your video games, and even your bedroom alarm.
2026 → 08Robots in homes, AI doctors, brain interfaces, AGI, and a trip to Mars. What might the next 5, 15, and 50 years look like?
2026 and beyond → 09With great power comes great responsibility. Bias, deepfakes, jobs, privacy — and seven simple rules for using AI safely.
A balanced look →It is possible that we will have superintelligence in a few thousand days.— Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, 2024