# The 70-Year Journey of Artificial Neural Networks: From McCulloch-Pitts to GPT-5

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> Updated: 2026-05-13T13:00:24.083Z
> Category: LLM Mühendisliği
> Module: Module 3: The Philosophical History of Deep Learning
**TLDR:** The history of deep learning: 1943 McCulloch-Pitts neurons, 1958 Perceptron, 1986 backprop popularization, 1989 LeCun's ZIP-code CNN, 1997 LSTM, 2006 Hinton's DBN paper, 2012 AlexNet, 2017 Transformer, 2022 ChatGPT, 2026 GPT-5. Technical and social context of each milestone.