The Timeline
A journey through the milestones that built modern artificial intelligence.
1950 · Milestone 1 of 8
The Turing Test
Alan Turing asks 'Can machines think?' in Computing Machinery and Intelligence.
1956 · Milestone 2 of 8
Birth of AI
The Dartmouth Workshop convenes — AI is born as a field of study.
1997 · Milestone 3 of 8
Deep Blue
IBM's Deep Blue defeats world chess champion Garry Kasparov.
2012 · Milestone 4 of 8
ImageNet Revolution
AlexNet launches the era of deep learning with convolutional networks.
2017 · Milestone 5 of 8
Attention is All You Need
The Transformer architecture is introduced, enabling modern LLMs.
2022 · Milestone 6 of 8
ChatGPT Goes Viral
OpenAI releases ChatGPT, bringing conversational AI to the masses.
2024 · Milestone 7 of 8
Multimodal Era
Vision + language models redefine what AI systems can understand.
2025 · Milestone 8 of 8
Agentic AI
AI agents begin performing complex, multi-step tasks autonomously.