Machines that think for themselves have captured our imagination since the earliest days of science fiction. But in 2023, artificial intelligence (AI) is no longer a fictional concept. Non-human agents are making smart decisions in fields ranging from entertainment to medicine.
AI went truly mainstream with the launch of ChatGPT (for Chat Generative Pre-Trained Transformer) in 2022. Designed as a natural language chatbot, ChatGPT saw AI reaching new heights of humanlike behavior. Here we look at how AI got there — and where it may go next.
Artificial intelligence is on everyone’s lips today but has been a long time in the making.
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Next: Intro
Artificial intelligence is on everyone’s lips today but has been a long time in the making.
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Next: 1940
Asimov writes of robots
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Next: 1950
Turing proposes a test
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Next: 1956
AI research begins
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Next: 1958
Enter the perceptron
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Next: 1969
Minsky mix-up nixes progress
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Next: 1982
Japan ups computing effort
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Next: 1997
Deep Blue beats Kasparov
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Next: 2010
AI gets Siri-ous
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Next: 2011
Watson wins Jeopardy!
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Next: 2015
Ready, steady, AlphaGo
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Next: 2022
ChatGPT goes live
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Next: 2023
Calls for caution
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Next: The future
AI with everything