From Turing to today

Alan Turing proposes the imitation game and asks whether machines can think.

Alan Turing

The summer workshop that founded artificial intelligence as a research field.

John McCarthy, Marvin Minsky, Claude Shannon, Nathaniel Rochester

I. J. Good describes an "intelligence explosion" and calls the first ultraintelligent machine the last invention humans need make.

I. J. Good

Vernor Vinge argues that superhuman intelligence will soon end the human era as we know it.

Vernor Vinge

The organization later renamed the Machine Intelligence Research Institute (MIRI) is founded.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

Ray Kurzweil popularises the singularity and predicts it around 2045.

Ray Kurzweil

Nick Bostrom's book brings the control problem of ASI into mainstream discussion.

Nick Bostrom

Twenty-three principles for beneficial AI drafted at the Future of Life Institute conference.

The paper "Attention Is All You Need" introduces the transformer, the basis of today's large language models.

Stuart Russell proposes AI designed to be uncertain about human preferences.

Stuart Russell

OpenAI releases ChatGPT, bringing large language models to a mass audience.

Center for AI Safety statement, signed by many AI researchers and lab leaders, that mitigating extinction risk from AI should be a global priority.

Countries at the UK AI Safety Summit agree on the risks of frontier AI and the need for cooperation.

The EU's risk-based AI regulation enters into force, with obligations for general-purpose AI models phased in afterwards.

Ilya Sutskever, Daniel Gross and Daniel Levy start a company focused solely on safe superintelligence.

Ilya Sutskever