Explore a fascinating 16-minute conference talk that uncovers the hidden history of early artificial intelligence development in Croatia during the 1950s. Journey through the AI landscape from 1943 to 1960, with special focus on the groundbreaking work of the first Zagreb circle of cybernetics. Learn about their innovative machine translation system and discover how their pioneering efforts parallel modern transformer architectures like BERT and GPT. Delivered by Sandro Skansi at DSC Adria 2024 in Zagreb, gain insights into a lesser-known chapter of AI history that bridges past innovations with present-day technological advances.