16th ~ 18th C
Early modern European natural science, meaning of agency and modern science, Bible literalism, religion and science, Protestant Reformation, Newton/Boyle/Descartes/Leibniz, European automata, imitation of human and natural intelligence, clocks, active/passive mechanism

8th ~ 18th C
Early modern engineering around the world, Japanese automata, the Great Divergence and China's labor, early algorithms, Islamic Golden Age and the House of Wisdom,  "Algorithm", Omega/Lambda knowledge

19th C ~ 20th C
The 19th Century, First Industrial Revolution, electricity, telegrams and telecommunication, typewriters and standardization of language,  Induced Innovation Hypothesis/Habakkuk Hypothesis

19th C ~ 20th C
Second Industrial Revolution, mass automation, feedback engineering & governors, rise of population statistics/sampling, modern nation states/democracies

1930s ~ 1980s
World wars, Bell Labs/Western Electric, ASWORG, IBM, ENIAC/MANIAC and first computers, Turing, the Cold War and Vietnam War, U.S. defense research, command and control, ARPA/DARPA, military-industrial-academic complex

19th C ~
History of language AI, chatbots, speech synthesis and recognition, HMMs, gender and AI voice, PAL and SIRI, empiricism vs. rationalism, Shannon and language modeling, Cold War machine translation, 1st AI winter

1940s ~
Mid-20th C algorithms and game theory, Cybernetics, Bellman and MDPs, von Neumann and Princeton IAS, reinforcement learning

1940s ~ 1980s
Modernizing AI as a field, AI conferences, LISP/IPL, Logic Theorist and General Problem Solver, rule-based algorithms,  2nd AI winter

1950s ~
Consumer hardware and software engineering, von Neumann/Dijkstra, sorting, pathfinding, backtracking, engineering vs. statistical learning (classification), AI and games, Atari, AlphaGo, IBM's Deep Blue

1940s ~
Early robotics, factory automation and car manufacturing, Honda and humanoids, Unimate, autonomous cars, SRI's Shakey and Centibots, DARPA challenge and robotics competitions

1950s~ 1980s
Microchips and hardware for AI, Cold War geopolitics and Asia Pacific, from vacuum tubes to Silicon semiconductors, GPUs/TPUs/NPUs, computer memory, Moore's Law, fabs and foundries, Kelly/Shockley

1980s ~ 1990s
Silicon Valley and the 1980s, rise of high risk private venture capital, start-up/anti-government culture, the Internet, consumer tech, AWS and cloud compute, document search and retrieval, expert systems

2000s ~ 2010s
Big data and cloud centers, 9/11 and Patriot Act, military-industrial complex, dot com bubble and bust, rise of big tech, SIRI/Cortana/Google Assistant,  deep learning and neural nets, AlexNet, video and image AI

2010s ~ 2020s
Transformers and large language models,  uni to multi-modal generative models, machine learning for medicine,  AI for X data science, PyTorch/Tensorflow, OpenAI vs. Deepmind, ChatGPT, LLaMa and open source AI

21st C
Today's AI data centers, economics of scaling, private and public markets and AI,  the imagined AI & AI ideologies (AGI/effective altruism/accelerationism), international AI and data policy, international geopolitics, AI and consciousness, GDPR