Down the 101 through Silicon Valley, from the perceptron to the transformer.. Tap a numbered dot and listen.
Narrated by The ChroniclerFocus: Deep Learning History79 km · about 56 min · 12 stories
The stories
In order along the route. Tap a dot on the map, or play them here.
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San Francisco, California
The Design of Lombard Street
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San Francisco, California
Frank Rosenblatt and the Perceptron
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South San Francisco, California
The Westbay Mountain Controversy
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San Francisco, California
The Economics of AI Winters
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San Mateo, California
The Architect Ernest Coxhead
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San Mateo, California
The Rise and Fall of William Ralston
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Redwood City, California
The Origins of Silicon Valley
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East Palo Alto, California
John McCarthy and AI Formalism Deep Dive · Part 1 of 3
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Mountain View, California
John McCarthy and AI Formalism Deep Dive · Part 2 of 3
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Sunnyvale, California
John McCarthy and AI Formalism Deep Dive · Part 3 of 3
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San Jose, California
Fei-Fei Li and ImageNet
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San Jose, California
Richard Meier's Civic Vision
Where the stories come from
Infinite Road draws from a library of primary sources — public-domain county histories, the WPA American Guide Series, National Register of Historic Places records, local records, and encyclopedic sources — then writes and narrates each story in its own words.