The Journey of AI: From Rules to Reasoning to Autonomous Agents

On April 25, 2026, Dr. Anukriti Bansal led a webinar tracing the evolution of AI. The session started at 7 PM on Google Meet.

AI did not start with large language models. It started with fixed rules: if this, then that. Over decades, those rules gave way to statistical learning, then to systems that could reason, and now to autonomous agents that can plan and act on their own. Dr. Bansal walked through each stage of this progression, explaining what changed and why it matters. The session was useful for anyone trying to understand where AI has been and where it is heading, beyond the hype and the headlines.