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Table of Contents
Introduction1. Timeline2. The Gestation Period (1940s-1955)Key Events3. The Golden Age (1956-1974)3.1 The Dartmouth Conference (1956)3.2 Early Achievements3.3 Optimism and High Expectations4. The First AI Winter (1974-1980)Causes5. The Expert Systems Era (1980-1987)5.1 Rise of Expert Systems5.2 Knowledge Engineering5.3 Backpropagation Revival (1986)6. The Second AI Winter (1987-1993)Causes7. Steady Progress (1993-2011)8. The Deep Learning Revolution (2012-2017)8.1 AlexNet (2012)8.2 Key Breakthroughs8.3 Driving Factors9. The Large Model Era (2018-Present)9.1 Pre-trained Language Models9.2 The ChatGPT Moment (November 2022)9.3 Multimodal and Diffusion Models (2023-)9.4 Open Questions10. Lessons from HistoryReferences

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