AI Development Timeline
Explore the evolution of artificial intelligence technology, from early fundamental research to the development of modern large models and agent ecosystems
AI Application Ecosphere Expanded
AI technology in various industries depth application
Manufacturing Automation Upgrade
AI optimizes production flow and quality control
Education Customized Platform
AI drives customized learning system
Medical AI Diagnostic System
AI aids medical diagnosis accuracy improved
Multimodal Model Fusion
Text, image, audio, video unified understanding
Multimodal Generation Capability
Cross-modal content generation quality improved
Real-time Multimodal Interaction
Voice, vision, text real-time fusion
Unified Multimodal Architecture
Cross-modal uniform representation learning breakthrough
AI Ethics and Governance
AI safety and ethics framework enhanced
Negative Responsibility AI Framework
Enterprise level AI governance framework established
AI Transparency Requirement
Model explainability technology breakthrough
AI Alignment Breakthrough
Value alignment and security research advances
Global AI Management Protocol
International AI safety standards establish
AGI Exploration Accelerated
General artificial intelligence research enters new phase
Cause and Effect Research
AI system causal reasoning ability enhanced
Embodied Intelligence Development
AI with robots technology integrates
Multimodal Reason Breakthrough
Cross-modal understanding and inference ability significantly improved
Neurosymbolic AI Fusion
Symbolism and connectionism fusion research
Video Generation Technique Developed
AI video generation technology continuously innovated
Stable Video 3D
Text to 3D video generation technique breakthrough
Veo Released
Google releases high quality video generation model
Sora Released
OpenAI launches high quality video generation model, showing 60 seconds high quality video generation ability
AI Hardware Innovated
AI specialized chip technology breakthrough
AMD MI300X
High performance GPU accelerates AI training and inference
Google TPU v5p
Optimized for large model training optimization
NVIDIA Blackwell Architecture
New generation AI computing platform
AI Body Technology Enhanced
AI intelligent body ability continuously improved
Embodied Intelligence
Intelligent body with physical world interaction ability improved
AutoGen Framework
Microsoft multi-agent collaboration framework popular
GPT-4o Multi-modal Body
Supports vision, audio, text of comprehensive intelligent body
Open Model Boomed
Open community large model rapidly grows
Falcon 180B
Arabic Innovation Technology Institute releases large scale open source model
Gemini 1.5
Google multi-modal model supports super long context window
Claude 3 Series
Anthropic releases Opus, Sonnet, Haiku three ability levels model
GPT-4o Released
OpenAI multi-modal real-time interactive model
Llama 3 Released
Meta next generation open source large model
Mistral 7B
French Mistral AI releases efficient small model
Gemini Model Released
Google multi-modal large model technology breakthrough
Gemini Released
Google releases native multi-modal large model
AI Tools Ecosphere Enhanced
Various AI application tools rapidly emerge
Adobe Firefly
Adobe's AI image generation tool
Notion AI
Integrate AI notes tool
Runway Gen-2
Text to video generation tool
Midjourney v4
AI art generation quality significantly improved
AI Framework Emerged
AI intelligent body technology rapidly grows
AgentGPT
Based on browser intelligent body platform
LangChain Popular
Large model application development framework
BabyAGI
Task oriented intelligent body system
AutoGPT Released
First autonomous AI intelligent body framework
Llama Series Opened
Meta opens large model pushing industry innovation
Llama 2-Chat
Specifically optimized dialog version
Llama 2 Released
Commercial friendly open source license
Llama Released
Meta opens 65B parameters model
Claude Series Developed
Anthropic focuses on AI security and alignment research
Claude 2.1
Security further improved
Claude 2 Released
Expands context window up to 100K tokens
Claude Released
Anthropic releases first dialogue assistant
GPT-4 Series Released
Multimodal large model capabilities enhance
GPT-4V Released
Visual understanding capability further enhanced
GPT-4 Turbo Released
OpenAI launches enhanced GPT-4, supporting 128K context
GPT-4 Turbo
Expands context window up to 128K tokens
GPT-4 API Opened
Developers can access GPT-4 capabilities
GPT-4 Released
OpenAI releases multimodal large model, supporting image input
ChatGPT Spark AI Trend
OpenAI releases ChatGPT, becoming fastest growing consumer application, sparking global AI trend
User Growth Rapidly
Two months growth users break 1 billion
ChatGPT Released
Based on GPT-3.5 of the dialog AI system
Stable Diffusion Open Source Model
Stability AI releases open source Stable Diffusion model, pushing AI image generation technology popular
Community Ecosphere Boomed
Bring forth large number of AI art creation tools and applications
Stable Diffusion Released
Based on LAION-5B data set image generation model
Codex with GitHub Copilot
OpenAI and GitHub cooperate to launch code generation tool, changing software development way
GitHub Copilot
AI programming assistant released
Codex Released
Based on GPT-3 code generation model
DALL-E Image Generation Model
OpenAI launches DALL-E, able to generate high quality images based on text, opening AI art creation era
DALL-E 2 Upgraded
Image quality and resolution significantly improved
DALL-E Released
Based on GPT-3 architecture text to image generation model
AlphaFold 2 Protein Structure Prediction
DeepMind developed AlphaFold 2 almost predicted all known proteins, bringing revolution in biomedical research
Protein Structure Database
Predicts human proteins group in 98.5% of proteins structure
AlphaFold 2 Released
In CASP14 protein structure prediction competition, achieves outstanding results
GPT-3 Large Language Model
OpenAI releases 1750 billion parameters GPT-3 model, opening large language model era
API Opened
Through API provide model ability to developers
GPT-3 Paper Released
Propose few-shot learning ability
Pretrain Language Model Era
BERT, GPT etc pretrain models lead to NLP revolution
AlphaStar
DeepMind AI in _StarCraft II_ defeated professional player
XLNet with RoBERTa
BERT improved version further enhances performance
MobileNet V2
Lightweight neural network promotes AI application on mobile devices
Facebook DLRM
Recommendation system depth learning model goes commercial
GPT-2 Released
15 billion parameter model shows strong text generation ability, delayed release
GPT-1 Released
OpenAI releases first generative pretrain Transformer
BERT Opened
Google launches open source Transformer pretrain model, refreshing record in 11 NLP tasks
BERT Paper Released
Google in ACL conference release BERT paper
Fast.ai
Depth learning beginner course pushes AI technology democracy
Transformer Architecture Revolution
Pure attention mechanism architecture leads depth learning new direction
First Transformer Implemented
Open community starts implementing and validating Transformer architecture
PyTorch 0.3
Facebook opens source depth learning framework receives wide attention
TensorFlow 1.0
Google opens source depth learning framework mature version
Attention Is All You Need
Google team in NeurIPS release revolutionary paper
AlphaGo Zero Revolution
Completely autonomous learning AI system breakthrough
AlphaGo Zero Release
From zero start self-play against AlphaGo
AlphaGo Defeats Lee Sedol
Depth learning in complex decision domain establishes milestone breakthrough
AlphaGo Master
In network platform defeats multiple top-level chess players
Five Chess Games
AlphaGo with 4:1 defeats world chess champion
Depth Learning Rapidly
GPU computing promotes depth learning rapidly, breakthroughs results frequent
Google Assistant
Google intelligent assistant released
AlphaGo Defeats Lee Sedol
4:1 defeats world chess champion, causing global attention
DeepMind AlphaGo Prototype
Start training AI system
RNN & LSTM Broadcast
Recurrent neural network in sequence data processing achieves significant results
ResNet Proposed
Ho Kang Ming et al propose residual network, solving deep layer network training problems
Microsoft Cortana Released
Windows platform voice assistant
TensorFlow Released
Google opens source depth learning framework
GAN Network Invented
Ian Goodfellow proposes generative adversarial network opening new AI approach
Dropout Regularization
Geoffrey Hinton proposes preventing overfitting important technique
DeepMind Acquired
Google acquires DeepMind for $5 billion
Word2Vec
Mikolov proposes word embedding model, revolutionizing natural language processing
Depth Learning Breakthrough
Depth learning in image recognition and voice recognition domain makes breakthrough
AlexNet Wins
Depth convolution neural network wins ImageNet competition
Google Brain Project
Google starts large scale depth learning research project
IBM Watson
In _Danger Edge_ episode wins human champion
ImageNet Competition
Large scale visual recognition challenge starts
Google Carless Driving Car
Sebastian Thrun leds Google Car without accident record
Netflix Recommend Algorithm Competition
Netflix holds million dollar recommendation algorithm competition, pushing collaborative filtering technology development
BellKor's Pragmatic Chaos Won
Team achieves 10% of recommendation accuracy improvement
Netflix Prize Starts
Provides 100 dollars reward improving recommendation algorithm
Depth Learning Early Preparation
Depth neural network training method makes breakthrough
GPU Accelerated Neural Network
CUDA platform starts being used for neural network training
Dropout Technique
Regularization method improves model generalization ability
Depth Belief Network
Geoffrey Hinton proposes pre-train method break away gradient descent problem
Machine Learning & Computer Vision Development
SVM, Random Forest and other algorithms rise, computer vision makes breakthroughs
Microsoft Kinect
3D motion sensor promotes computer vision applications
ImageNet Dataset Released
Large-scale image classification dataset drives computer vision development
HOG Features
Histogram of Oriented Gradients breakthrough for pedestrian detection
HMAX Model
Hierarchical neural network simulating visual cortex
Deep Learning Revival
Geoffrey Hinton et al propose deep belief network training methods
SIFT Features
David Lowe proposes Scale-Invariant Feature Transform, laying foundation for feature extraction
SVM Algorithm Widespread Application
Support Vector Machines become mainstream method for classification problems
OpenCV Library Released
Open-source computer vision library promotes research and application development
Viola-Jones Face Detection
Paul Viola and Michael Jones propose real-time face detection algorithm
Random Forest Algorithm
Leo Breiman proposes ensemble learning algorithm, greatly improving classification accuracy
Reinforcement Learning & Agent Technology
Reinforcement learning theory and multi-agent systems develop
Multi-agent Systems Theory
Distributed AI systems research rises
SARSA Algorithm
Online reinforcement learning algorithm proposed
Q-learning Algorithm Refinement
Chris Watkins et al popularize reinforcement learning algorithms
AdaBoost Algorithm
Yoav Freund and Robert Schapire propose AdaBoost algorithm
AdaBoost Paper
Proposes adaptive boosting algorithm, major breakthrough in ensemble learning
Deep Blue Defeats World Chess Champion
IBM supercomputer defeats human champion in chess
Search Algorithm Breakthrough
Success combining heuristic search and evaluation functions
Deep Blue vs Kasparov
IBM Deep Blue defeats world champion 3.5:2.5
Support Vector Machine Algorithm
Vladimir Vapnik et al perfect SVM theory
SVM Theory Refinement
Vapnik et al publish "Support-Vector Networks" paper
Machine Learning Theoretical Foundations
Statistical learning theory and support vector machines develop
PAC Learning Theory Refinement
Computational learning theory framework forms
Reinforcement Learning Algorithms
Richard Sutton publishes "Introduction to Reinforcement Learning"
Kernel Methods
Kernel trick enables SVM to handle non-linear problems
Bayesian Networks
Judea Pearl publishes "Probabilistic Reasoning in Intelligent Systems"
Support Vector Machines
Vladimir Vapnik proposes SVM algorithm
Connection Machine CM-5
Supercomputer designed for large-scale parallel AI computing
Connectionism Rise
Neural network research regains attention
Boltzmann Machine
Geoffrey Hinton et al propose probabilistic generative model
Hopfield Network
John Hopfield proposes neural network with associative memory capabilities
Stanford Cart Robot
First autonomous mobile robot, capable of avoiding obstacles
Stanford Cart
Hans Moravec's robot capable of autonomous navigation in complex environments
First AI Winter
Expert system limitations become apparent, AI research enters downturn
Research Funding Decreases
Governments and enterprises reduce AI R&D investment
Expert System Maintenance Costs
Knowledge acquisition bottleneck problems become prominent
LISP Machine Market Collapse
Specialized AI hardware market shrinks dramatically
Backpropagation Algorithm Revival
Multi-layer neural network training method regains attention
Parallel Distributed Processing
PDP research group promotes neural network research
Backpropagation Paper
Rumelhart et al rediscover and popularize backpropagation algorithm
Backpropagation Algorithm Revival
Multi-layer neural network training method regains attention
Parallel Distributed Processing
PDP research group promotes neural network research
Backpropagation Paper
Rumelhart et al rediscover and popularize backpropagation algorithm
AI Commercialization Attempts
AI companies established, expert systems commercial applications
Cyc Project Launched
Large-scale common sense knowledge base project
LISP Machine Market
Specialized AI hardware market forms
Japan's Fifth Generation Computer Project
Japanese government invests in AI research
Symbolics Company
First AI hardware company founded
Machine Learning Algorithm Development
Decision trees, ID3 algorithm and other machine learning methods emerge
K-Nearest Neighbors Algorithm
Classic algorithm in pattern recognition
Backpropagation Algorithm
Paul Werbos proposes backpropagation for training multi-layer neural networks
Decision Tree Algorithm
Ross Quinlan develops ID3 decision tree algorithm
Expert Systems Rise
Rule-based expert systems applied in medicine, chemistry and other fields
XCON System
DEC's expert system for configuring computer systems
PROSPECTOR System
Geological exploration expert system discovers important mineral deposits
PROLOG Language
University of Marseille develops logic programming language
MYCIN System
Stanford University develops medical diagnosis expert system
Early AI Programs
Logic Theorist, Geometry Theorem Prover and other early AI systems
Minsky and Papert Criticism
Publication of "Perceptrons" pointing out limitations of single-layer perceptrons, leading to neural network research downturn
SHAKEY Robot
Stanford Research Institute develops first mobile robot with perception and reasoning capabilities
DENDRAL Expert System
First expert system for chemical analysis
ELIZA Chatbot
Joseph Weizenbaum develops first chatbot
Geometry Theorem Prover
Herbert Gelernter develops geometry theorem proving program
Logic Theorist
Allen Newell and Herbert Simon develop first AI program to prove mathematical theorems
Perceptron Invention
Frank Rosenblatt invents the first learnable neural network
Perceptron Paper
Publishes "The Perceptron: A Probabilistic Model for Information Storage and Organization in the Brain"
Perceptron Model
Frank Rosenblatt invents Mark I Perceptron, the first learnable neural network model
Dartmouth Conference
AI as independent discipline formally established
AI Term Coined
John McCarthy first proposes the term "Artificial Intelligence"
Conference Held
John McCarthy, Marvin Minsky and other scholars hold AI Summer Research Project at Dartmouth College
Turing Test
Alan Turing proposes criteria for judging machine intelligence
Paper Publication
Alan Turing publishes "Computing Machinery and Intelligence" proposing the Turing Test
Shannon Information Theory
Claude Shannon proposes information theory, laying foundation for communication and coding theory
Information Theory Paper
Claude Shannon publishes "A Mathematical Theory of Communication"
Dartmouth Conference
AI formally established as an independent discipline
AI Term Coined
John McCarthy first proposes the term "Artificial Intelligence"
Conference Held
John McCarthy, Marvin Minsky and other scholars hold AI Summer Research Project at Dartmouth College
Turing Test
Alan Turing proposes criteria for judging machine intelligence
Paper Publication
Alan Turing publishes "Computing Machinery and Intelligence" proposing the Turing Test
McCulloch-Pitts Neuron Model
First neural network mathematical model, laying AI theoretical foundation
Paper Publication
Warren McCulloch and Walter Pitts publish "A Logical Calculus of the Ideas Immanent in Nervous Activity"
Turing Machine Theory
Alan Turing proposes universal computer theoretical model
Turing Machine Paper
Alan Turing publishes "On Computable Numbers, with an Application to the Entscheidungsproblem"
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