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The Story of AI: From Brain Cells to ChatGPT(… and what it really wants)

it was 1943. 

world war II was raging. 

meanwhile two guys - mcculloch and pitts - sat down and asked a weird

question: can we describe the brain… using math?
the first time we tried to make a machine think… we weren't building computers.

we were trying to decode ourselves.

they weren't coding. they were dreaming.
they imagined a network of simple units - on or off - just like neurons.

it didn't do much. it couldn't learn. but it was enough to start a fire.

they sparked a new kind of thinking…

one where intelligence wasn't magic or soul or mystery…
but computation.

fast forward to 1950s…
alan turing asked, can machines think?

but nobody could even define "thinking."

in the 60s, we tried rule-based logic.

in the 80s, we returned to neural nets.

in the 2000s, we gave up again.
**
then came 2012.**

a deep net beat everyone at recognizing cats on the internet.
the floodgates opened.

we taught sand to dream in probabilities.

we made silicon hallucinate.

we layered millions of artificial neurons and whispered billions of words into them.

today, we have chatgpt.

tomorrow… god knows what.

that's why i have created boringskool. 

we're not here to predict the future.

we're here to trace how we got here… and how to ride the next wave with eyes wide open.

our first video is out now. it's not a tutorial. it's a story.

the truth is, this isn't just about ai.
it's about you.
your attention. 
your curiosity. 
your ability to still be surprised.
watch the story.

and then ask yourself:
are you still sleepwalking through this era…
or are you finally waking up?

this is the first video i've ever put out. and if you're reading this… 

it means the world. seriously. your support right now isn't just clicks or views… it's momentum.

it's what keeps this thing going. 
boringskool isn't backed by some big team or fancy funding… 
it's just an idea i believe in. for the lazy and ambitious ones.

for the misfits trying to stay relevant in the ai storm. 

so if this video hits something in you… share it, talk about it, reply. 

this is just the beginning.

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