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CEvery few months someone posts the entire history of AI in one giant thread.
MAnd it always ends with a rocket emoji.
CThis one's from Deepak on X. He calls it "The Incredible Evolution of AI!"
MLet me guess, it starts with Turing and ends with a chatbot.
CStarts with Alan Turing in 1950, ends with ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude. It's a timeline, not a dissertation.
MI checked it. It's not wrong — Turing's 1950 paper, the Dartmouth workshop. But it's a promo post, not a finding.
CI still say it does one useful thing.
MWhich is what?
CIt tells people the chatbot in their pocket didn't just appear in 2022. That took decades.
MBut it flattens the history into a smooth, heroic arc. It skips the winters, the dead ends, the fights.
CIt's a graphic, Matilda. It's supposed to be a line. You want the ten-part documentary?
MMaybe. At least then somebody might learn which ideas actually stuck.
CI think you're overcorrecting. Most people think AI started with ChatGPT. A simple timeline fixes that.
MIt also tells people AI is one long success story. That's not true.
CNostalgia's now a crime? The post is true and it's clear. That's more than half the feed.
MNo, wait — that's exactly my problem. "True and clear" is a bar for a classroom, not for a live show.
CFine. What do you want the post to say?
MI want it to say where the actual leap happened. The real shock isn't the seventy years from Turing to ChatGPT. It's the three years from ChatGPT to every big company shipping a bot.
CThat's rewriting history! Those three years could not happen without those seventy. You can't cut the foundation.
MI'm not cutting it. I'm saying the timeline hides the interesting part by making it all look steady.
COkay, I'll give you that: it's steady when the real story is anything but.
MThat's the most generous thing you've said all hour.
CDon't get used to it.
MSpeaking of bots, here's a post that accidentally proves your point about the gap.
CI'm listening.
MDavid Akpovi on X is selling an audiobook on how to prompt ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini.
CAn audiobook? For typing questions at a chatbot?
MTo get results he says people never quite get.
CThere's a whole manual now? I thought these tools were supposed to be conversational.
MThat's my point. The big AI evolution, and we need a paid audiobook to ask for a decent answer.
COh, come on. People also paid for books on how to use Google. It's a skill, not a failure.
MIt's a usability failure! If I have to learn incantations to get Claude to do what I mean, the model isn't that smart.
CThat's like saying a car is broken because you need driving lessons.
MNo, a car doesn't claim to understand plain English.
CFine. The marketing overpromised. But prompting is just asking clear questions. The audiobook is for people who want power features.
MYou're defending a product you haven't heard.
CI'm defending the idea that skill matters. You can't get mad at a tool because experts use it better.
MI can get mad if the tool is sold as an oracle and delivers mediocrity. The audiobook is the proof.
CI think it proves there's a market for people who want edges. That's not new.
MIt's new that the "edge" is just talking clearly to a machine. That's a lousy revolution.
CYou just summed up the entire AI hype cycle in one sentence.
MI'll be here all week.
CDon't get too comfortable, I'm about to bring up the timeline again.
MPlease don't.
CToo late.