A visual history of AI: eighty-three years as one winding road — the lineages of ideas, the events that bent them, and a frontier edge that grows every morning. Tap any stop. Follow any thread.
UPDATED DAILY · NEW STOPS EVERY MORNING · LAST ADDED AUG 2, 2026
EVERY NODE RESEARCHED LIVE AND ADVERSARIALLY FACT-CHECKED · 8 ERRORS CAUGHT BEFORE PUBLICATION · CURRENT THROUGH AUG 5, 2026
The shortest possible version. Tap any era to drive straight to that stretch of road.
The map grew in three places this week. Each pin extends a thread you can walk all the way back.
Those three pins are the newest stops on a road that runs all the way back to 1943 — 72 of them, below.
One road through 83 years, drawn fresh every morning — the route weaves a different way each day and the stops fall wherever the roadside has room. It paves itself ahead of you as you scroll, and it never ends: new stops arrive daily. Landmark stops are big; minor ones are small. Pick a lineage to recolor the road. Chinchilla (2022) carries an embedded explorable. J / K to drive between stops, ? for a random one.
The map's second axis: not when, but where. Honest state of play as of August 2026 — what works, what's stalled, what to watch. Tap to open.
One short note at dawn: what moved on the road, and which questions got hotter overnight. No news dump — the two or three things worth knowing, and why.