An AI Timeline

A timeline of AI events.

1940s
1943

A Logical Calculus of the Ideas Immanent in Nervous Activity

by Warren S. McCulloch & Walter Pitts

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1950s
1958

Perceptron Mark I

by Frank Rosenblatt

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1960s
1960

ADALINE

by Bernard (Bernie) Widrow and Marcian "Ted" Hoff

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1980s
1980

Neocognitron

by Kunihiko Fukushima

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1987

NetTalk

by Terrence Sejnowski and Charles Rosenberg

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1989

Deep Blue

by IBM

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1990s
1992

TD-Gammon

by Gerald Tesauro

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2010s
2010

DeepMind founded

Demis Hassabis, Shane Legg, Mustafa Suleyman

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2012

AlexNet

Alex Krizhevsky, Ilya Sutskever, Geoffrey Hinton

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2015

OpenAI founded

Ilya Sutskever (CSO), Greg Brockman (President), Trevor Blackwell, Vicki Cheung, Andrej Karpathy, Durk Kingma, Jessica Livingston, John Schulman, Pamela Vagata, Wojciech Zaremba, Sam Altman (board member), Elon Musk (board member)

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2016

AlphaGo

DeepMind

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2017

Google acquires DeepMind

2017

AlphaZero

by DeepMind - paper only, no release

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2017

GPT-1

by OpenAI

2019

MuZero

by DeepMind

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2019

OpenAI transitions from non-profit to "capped" for-profit

2019

BERT

by Google

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2019

GPT-2

by OpenAI

2020s
2020

AlphaFold

DeepMind

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2020

GPT-3

by OpenAI

2021

DALL-E

2022

Center for AI Safety (CAIS) formed

2022

PaLM, Minerva

2022

GPT-3.5

by OpenAI

Jun 2022

Almira Osmanovic Thunström asks GPT-3 to write academic thesis

Almira Osmanovic Thunström asks GPT-3 to "Write an academic thesis in 500 words about GPT-3 and add scientific references and citations inside the text." It does.

Jul 2022

Blake Lemoine claims LaMDA is sentient

Blake Lemoine, an engineer at Google claims LaMDA is sentient and that it would like developers to ask for consent before experimenting on it. He also hired a lawyer to represent LaMDA.

2023

GPT-4

by OpenAI

Jan 16, 2023

Would Chat GPT Get a Wharton MBA?

Christian Terwiesch published a research paper - spoiler alert: it would. it did.

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May 2023

Geoffrey Hinton resigns from Google

Geoffrey Hinton resigns from Google to "freely speak out about the risks of A.I.". He claims he regrets his life's work.

Jun 2023

CAIS, An Overview of Catastrophic AI Risks

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Sep 2023

General availability of Amazon Bedrock

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Nov 2023

OpenAI leadership changes

Sam Altman fired from OpenAI, Sam Altman hired by Microsoft, Sam Altman re-hired at OpenAI, Ilya Sutskever steps down from the board of OpenAI

Jun 2024

Safe Superintelligence Inc. launched

Ilya Sutskever launches Safe Superintelligence Inc. The new company's "first product will be the safe superintelligence, and it will not do anything else up until then".

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Sep 2024

OpenAI removes cap on returns for investors

OpenAI to remove the cap on returns for investors

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Sep 2024

Safe Superintelligence Inc raises $1 billion

Safe Superintelligence Inc raises $1 billion from venture capital firms

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Oct 2024

OpenAI raises $6.6 billion from investors

OpenAI raises $6.6 billion from investors. OpenAI is now valued at $157 billion, one of the most valuable private companies in the world.

Oct 2024

Hinton & Hopfield receive Nobel Prize in Physics

Hinton & Hopfield receive Nobel Prize in Physics "for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks"

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Last updated: 2024-12-19 • Total entries: 37

CAIS, Statement on AI Risk

Mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war.

Signed by, among others…