Current State and Evolution of AI
From Turing’s question — “Can machines think?” to today’s era where machines reason, plan, and act, this session traces the wild arc of AI evolution.
We’ll move fast through:
Foundations: From symbolic logic to neural breakthroughs — Turing Test, AlphaGo, and AlexNet.
The Transformer Revolution: Why attention changed everything, spawning GPTs, diffusion models, and emergent reasoning.
The New Stack: SFT, RLHF, MoE, World Models, SLMs, Nanochat — decoding the tech that powers today’s frontier labs.
China’s AI Ascent: Small labs, large models, and the rise of efficient architectures from Qwen, Kimi, and DeepSeek.
Agents & Autonomy: From chatbots to autonomous systems — how AI is evolving into reasoning agents that see, plan, and execute.
The Road Ahead: Open vs. closed ecosystems, compute walls, and the next wave — memory, world models, and reasoning loops.
A fast-paced, first-principles journey through how we got here and where AI might go next.
Perfect for anyone who wants to understand the arc.