Turing Machine (1936), Turing Test (1950)
Alan Turing thought of a machine that could solve any problem a computer can if it had the right instructions. He also came up with a test to see if a computer could pretend to be human.
Information Theory (1948)
Claude Shannon's work made it possible for us to send and store data efficiently. While working for Bell Labs on their telephone network, he designed and implemented a complete digital encoding technique. Think about texting or watching videos online - that's thanks to his ideas!
John McCarthy is the person who came up with the term "Artificial Intelligence" (in 1956) and invented a programming language (lisp) that helped researchers develop AI.
John also initiated the development of time-sharing systems to fairly share expensive computing resources. These practices are now the foundations of the cloud computing industry.
2012: AlexNet, CNN that won ImageNet competition
2014: GANs (Generative Adversarial Networks)
2015: AlphaGo beats professional Go player
2017: Transformer, Attention Is All You Need
The 2010s saw major breakthroughs with AlexNet winning the ImageNet competition, GANs creating realistic images, AlphaGo beating a Go champion, and the Transformer model improving language processing.
2020: GPT-3, large-scale language model by OpenAI - 7 grade IQ
2021: AlphaFold, protein folding AI by Google DeepMind
2022: DALL-E, image generation model by OpenAI
2023: ChatGPT, conversational AI by OpenAI - high school IQ
In the 2020s, AI has reached new heights with GPT-3 writing human-like text, AlphaFold solving advanced protein structures, DALL-E creating images from text, and ChatGPT having conversations like a human.