I read every major CS paper of the last 100 years...

A whirlwind tour through 10 landmark computer science papers spanning nearly 100 years, from Alan Turing's 1936 work on computable numbers and the halting problem, to Claude Shannon's information theory, Rosenblatt's perceptron, Lamport's logical clocks, backpropagation, PageRank, AlexNet, the Transformer architecture, and GPT-3. Each paper is explained accessibly, showing how each breakthrough built on the last to produce modern AI. The throughline: Turing defined computation, Shannon quantified information, neural network pioneers taught machines to learn, Google provided data and architecture, and OpenAI scaled everything to the limit.