A Brief History of Machine Learning and LLMs

What follows is a chronicle of key events in the evolution of the field of artificial intelligence, broadly defined. It is not mean to be a definitive history, and is focused more on milestones and impacts than evolution of algorithms and computational approaches. Readers with an interest in the evolution of technical aspects may  wish to consult IBM’s Developer pages: A beginner’s guide to artificial intelligence and machine learning. For a deeper dive into technical details, readers may follow the links to research papers referenced in this section.