The Rise of Machine Intelligence by Sohrob Kazerounian

This piece surveys the evolution of artificial intelligence from foundational work in logic, psychology, and cybernetics to McCulloch and Pitts' 1943 neural network, the Dartmouth workshop that named artificial intelligence, the rise of perceptrons and GOFAI, the connectionist revival with backpropagation, and the modern deep learning resurgence powered by LSTMs, deep belief networks, GPUs, and abundant data, leading to widespread industry adoption.