From a question in 1950 to the tools you use every day — told in four chapters.
It's in your phone, your inbox, your search results.
Brought AI into everyday conversation
Changed how developers write code
Turned text prompts into artwork
Understands and responds in real time
AI stopped following instructions and started learning on its own.
Humans wrote rules. AI followed them.
AI saw examples. It figured out the rules itself.
Recognized images better than humans
Understood spoken language accurately
More data + faster hardware = rapid progress
AI could only do what engineers told it to do — nothing more.
If this, then that. Rigid logic paths.
Worked in narrow domains like medicine
Couldn't handle the real world's messiness
In 1950, Turing published Computing Machinery and Intelligence and proposed something radical: what if machines could think?
"Can machines think?"
That one question launched the entire field.
One question → decades of rules → a breakthrough in learning → AI everywhere.
70 years of progress, one scroll.