S1E01: The History of AI — From Turing to ChatGPT

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Can a machine think? It’s the question a British mathematician named Alan Turing asked in 1950 — and it’s the question everything in artificial intelligence grows from.In this opening episode of Open MAInd, Alex and Jordan trace the full arc of AI history across three eras. The Dreamers, who imagined thinking machines decades before the technology could deliver. The Survivors, who kept the idea alive through two brutal “AI winters” when funding vanished and the field was written off. And the Explosion — the breakthroughs of the last fifteen years that took AI from research labs into the hands of billions.Along the way: the chatbot from 1966 that people treated like a therapist, the chess match that made headlines worldwide, the Go move so creative a world champion called it beautiful, and the protein-folding breakthrough that helped win two Nobel Prizes in a single year.This is the foundation. Everything else we explore in this series builds on it.What you’ll take away:• Why the entire field was built on a decision to avoid defining intelligence• How two “AI winters” nearly killed the technology — and what kept it alive• Why every major breakthrough was considered impossible right up until it happened• The question Turing asked in 1950 that we still haven’t answeredOpen MAInd is an independent, educational podcast exploring artificial intelligence with an open mind — clearly, honestly, and without hype.This episode was made with the help of AI tools. Every fact is verified against credible, publicly available sources before publication.Follow Open MAInd so you don’t miss the next episode. New episodes every Wednesday.We’d love to hear from you — leave a comment and tell us what surprised you most.

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