Neuron Makers · Part I · Chapters 1–4

The Two Winters

A discredited idea, kept alive by a stubborn few across roughly 35 years of ridicule and dead funding, until it suddenly won. The timeline runs from the first learning machine to the result that reordered the field.

AI winter (approx.) Believers advance The field turns away The result that won

SOURCE · NEURON MAKERS, CH. 1–4 (Genesis · Promise · Rejection · Breakthrough) + Prologue. Milestones from the public record retold in those chapters; winter spans (~1973–1980, ~1995–2006) are shaded as eras, not exact boundaries.