2024 — 2017
The Agent Era
Autonomous agents begin to populate the web. They plan, execute, and iterate. It's no longer just chat; it's action.
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Multimodal
Vision, audio, and text merge into single unified models. AI now perceives the world as humans do.
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Generative Explosion
ChatGPT launches. The world changes overnight. LLMs become household utilities.
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The Transformer
"Attention Is All You Need". The paper that killed RNNs and birthed the GPT architecture.
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2016 — 1950
Move 37
AlphaGo defeats Lee Sedol. A move of "inhuman" intuition that shocked the world.
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Deep Blue
IBM's machine defeats Kasparov. Brute force calculation triumphs over human strategy.
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The Winter
Funding dries up. The promises of early AI fail to materialize. Research goes underground.
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Imitation Game
Turing's question: "Can machines think?" The philosophical start of it all.
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