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ChatGPT made AI a household word in two months. The more important shift came after, when models learned to reason step by step and then to act on their own. Here is how that happened, and why it matters.
Between 2012 and 2022, AI stopped being a collection of clever tricks and became a matter of data and computing power. This is the decade that put superintelligence on the table.
Machines that think have been promised since the 1950s. The story of how the field kept failing, and why each failure taught it something it needed, is the best way to understand what is happening now.