Can Machines Think?

Before ChatGPT. Before AlphaGo. Before Siri. "Can machines think?" A mathematician asked it in 1950. What followed was one of the most dramatic stories in human history - spanning Cold War labs, Silicon Valley garages, and the server farms that now shape how we live, work, and see the world. A Brief History of Artificial Intelligence takes you from the first flickering idea of a thinking machine to the age of ChatGPT - a story filled with obsessive geniuses, billion-dollar bets, government panics, and breakthroughs that changed everything.

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