AI

The long road to machines that reason — from Aristotle's syllogisms to today's frontier models.

10 posts· 350 BCE – 1950

• Turing's imitation game 1950
• Shannon's chess paper and the problem it was really solving 1950
• McCulloch and Pitts, or a mind made of thresholds 1943
• Turing's machine, or the question no algorithm can answer 1936
• Frege's Begriffsschrift 1879
• Boole's algebra of thought 1854
• Leibniz's calculus ratiocinator, or let us calculate who is right 1679
• Llull's Ars Magna, or how a troubadour built the first reasoning machine 1305
• Al-Jazari's musicians, or the first machine you could reprogram 1206
• The Prior Analytics, or the first argument written in letters 350 BCE