The 70-Year Overnight Success: How AI Finally Arrived

Logosofia no Dia a Dia · Jan 20, 2026 · 26m

While the world was stunned by the sudden arrival of generative AI in late 2022, the technology was actually the result of a grueling seventy-year marathon. In this episode, Herman Poppleberry and Corn peel back the layers of AI history, from the optimistic beginnings of the 1956 Dartmouth Workshop to the dark periods known as "AI Winters." They explore why early symbolic logic failed to capture the messiness of the real world and how a small group of dedicated researchers—the "Canadian Mafia"—kept the dream of neural networks alive when no one else would. The duo breaks down the "three…