An AI Timeline
A timeline of AI events.
- 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 : General availability of 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:
- 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.
- Hinton & Hopfield receive Nobel Prize in Physics “for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks”
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