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A short, source-backed overview of The Long Human Road to AI Season 1, showing how computers and AI emerged from older human patterns and what readers will learn across seven articles and this overview.
How the 1956 Dartmouth workshop named and organized artificial intelligence, what early symbolic systems actually demonstrated, and why the era's optimism both helped and overpromised.
A narrative history of calculation before electronics: human computers, abaci, Napier's rods, mechanical calculators, automata, Jacquard cards, and Babbage's engines.
A history of AI winters and expert systems shows that intelligence claims survive only when they meet grounded tests, maintenance plans, and institution-aware deployment criteria.