An AI Timeline

• 1943 A Logical Calculus of the Ideas Immanent in Nervous Activity by Warren S. McCulloch & Walter Pitts
• 1958 Perceptron Mark I by Frank Rosenblatt
• 1960 ADALINE by Bernard (Bernie) Widrow and Marcian “Ted” Hoff
• 1980 Neocognitron by Kunihiko Fukushima
• 1987 NetTalk by Terrence Sejnowski and Charles Rosenberg
• 1989 Deep Blue by IBM.
• 1992 TD-Gammon by Gerald Tesauro.
• 2010 DeepMind founded.
  • Demis Hassabis
  • Shane Legg
  • Mustafa Suleyman
• 2012 AlexNet
  • Alex Krizhevsky
  • Ilya Sutskever
  • Geoffrey Hinton.
• 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)
• 2016 AlphaGo DeepMind
• 2017 Google acquires DeepMind
• 2017 AlphaZero by DeepMind
  • paper only, no release
• 2017 GPT-1 by OpenAI
• 2019 MuZero by DeepMind
• 2019 OpenAI transitions from non-profit to "capped" for-profit
• 2019 BERT by Google
• 2019 GPT-2 by OpenAI
• 2020 AlphaFold
  • DeepMind
• 2020 GPT-3 by OpenAI
• 2021 DALL-E
• 2022 Center for AI Safety (CAIS) formed
• 2022 PaLM, Minerva
• 2022 GPT-3.5 by OpenAI
• 2022 June-ish: 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.
• 2022 July-ish: 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
• January 17, 2023: Christian Terwiesch published a research paper entitled, "Would Chat GPT Get a Wharton MBA?" - spoiler alert: it would. it did.
• 2023 May: Geoffrey Hinton resigns from Google to "freely speak out about the risks of A.I.". He claims he regrets his life's work.
• 2023 June : CAIS, An Overview of Catastrophic AI Risks
• 2023 September : Amazon Bedrock
• 2023 November
  • 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
• 2024 June: 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".
• 2024 September:
  • OpenAI to remove the cap on returns for investors
  • Safe Superintelligence Inc raises $1 billion from venture capital firms
• 2024 October: OpenAI raises $6.6 billion from investors. OpenAI is now valued at $157 billion, one of the most valuable private companies in the world.

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...

• Geoffrey Hinton
• Demis Hassabis
• Ilya Sutskever
• Igor Babuschkin
• Shane Legg
• Yi Zeng
• Tony (Yuhuai) Wu
• John Schulman
• Wojciech Zaremba
• Jared Kaplan
• Chris Olah
• Ryota Kanai
• Kanjun Qiu
• Gregor Joeris
• Karim Beguir
• Max Jaderberg
• Andreas Stuhlmüller
• Joshua J Morley