The Rise of Autonomous AI Systems - Historical Era
Ch1.Mechanical Ancestors: Automata and the Dream of Self-Moving Machines
Ch2.Wartime Codebreakers: Computing Emerges from Conflict
Ch3.The Dartmouth Summer and Early Symbolic Intelligence
Ch4.Expert Systems, Winters, and the Boom-Bust Cycle
Ch5.Neural Networks Reborn: From Perceptrons to Deep Learning
Ch6.Autonomous Machines Enter the Physical World
Ch7.Language, Generative Models, and the Scaling Hypothesis
Ch8.Governance, Alignment, and the Questions That Remain