The CEO Podcast with Ryan Conlan.
Jul 22, 2026 · 19 min · 11 segments
This podcast episode explores the history of artificial intelligence (AI) with a focus on its development in New South Wales (NSW), Australia. It covers the evolution of AI from its inception in the…
Ryan ConlanHost
So the history of artificial intelligence brackets AI spans more than 70 years and has gone through periods of rapid progress and slower development.
In the 1940s, 1950s, the Foundation, 43, Ern McCulloch and Walter Pitts proposed the first mathematical model of artificial neurons.
1950, Alan Turing published Computing, Machinery and Intelligence and introduced the Turing test to evaluate machine intelligence.
1956, the term, quote, artificial intelligence, end quote, was coined by John McCarthy at the Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial Intelligence, widely regarded as the birth of AI as a field.
Researchers developed programs that could solve mathematical problems, play simple games, and understand limited natural language.
Notable systems included a 1966, where else, an early AI, chatbot that stimulated a psychotherapist oh that's excuse me simulated a psychotherapist in 70s to 1980s AI winters and expert systems the promises proved harder to achieve than expected to reduce funding and interest periods known as AI winters in the 1980s expert systems became popular programs and used rule-based knowledge to assist with tasks such as medical diagnosis and business decision making in 90s machine learning emerges ai shifted from hand-coded rules to machine learning systems learned from data in the 19 or excuse me in 1997 blue deflated world class champion gary kasparov marking a major ai milestone cousins to 2010s the deep learning revolution more powerful computers large data sets and improved algorithms fueled rapid advances In 2012, Deep Learning achieved a breakthrough in image recognition.
2016, AlphaGo defeated Go champion Lee Sedol, demonstrating AI's ability to master an extraordinarily complex game.
2020's generative AI, large language models, LLMs, and generative AI transformed how people interact with computers.
Applications expanded across education, healthcare, finance, science, and creative industries while also raising important discussions around ethics, bias, biases, privacy, and regulation.
1966, Milestone, the year 1996, Milestone, Elsa, one of the first chatbots, year 1980s.
Today, AI powers technologies such as virtual assistants, recommendation systems, for example, like on...
YouTube, autonomous vehicles, medical diagnosis tools, language, translation, and conversational AI.
So the history of artificial intelligence brackets AI spans more than 70 years and has gone through periods of rapid progress and slower development.
In the 1940s, 1950s, the Foundation, 43, Ern McCulloch and Walter Pitts proposed the first mathematical model of artificial neurons.
1950, Alan Turing published Computing, Machinery and Intelligence and introduced the Turing test to evaluate machine intelligence.
1956, the term, quote, artificial intelligence, end quote, was coined by John McCarthy at the Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial Intelligence, widely regarded as the birth of AI as a field.
Researchers developed programs that could solve mathematical problems, play simple games, and understand limited natural language.
Notable systems included a 1966, where else, an early AI, chatbot that stimulated a psychotherapist oh that's excuse me simulated a psychotherapist in 70s to 1980s AI winters and expert systems the promises proved harder to achieve than expected to reduce funding and interest periods known as AI winters in the 1980s expert systems became popular programs and used rule-based knowledge to assist with tasks such as medical diagnosis and business decision making in 90s machine learning emerges ai shifted from hand-coded rules to machine learning systems learned from data in the 19 or excuse me in 1997 blue deflated world class champion gary kasparov marking a major ai milestone cousins to 2010s the deep learning revolution more powerful computers large data sets and improved algorithms fueled rapid advances In 2012, Deep Learning achieved a breakthrough in image recognition.
2016, AlphaGo defeated Go champion Lee Sedol, demonstrating AI's ability to master an extraordinarily complex game.
2020's generative AI, large language models, LLMs, and generative AI transformed how people interact with computers.
Applications expanded across education, healthcare, finance, science, and creative industries while also raising important discussions around ethics, bias, biases, privacy, and regulation.
1966, Milestone, the year 1996, Milestone, Elsa, one of the first chatbots, year 1980s.
Today, AI powers technologies such as virtual assistants, recommendation systems, for example, like on...
YouTube, autonomous vehicles, medical diagnosis tools, language, translation, and conversational AI.
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