Artificial intelligence: the key moments

Alan Turing proposes the imitation game, now called the Turing test.

The founding event of AI as a field; the term “artificial intelligence” comes from its 1955 proposal.

Joseph Weizenbaum’s program at MIT imitates a psychotherapist — the first chatbot.

A computer defeats the world chess champion in a match.

AlexNet wins the ImageNet competition by a wide margin.

DeepMind’s program wins 4–1 at Go.

The paper “Attention Is All You Need” introduces the architecture behind today’s language models.

AI predicts protein structures with accuracy close to experiments.

OpenAI’s chatbot reaches an estimated 100 million users within about two months.

The first comprehensive AI law, applied in stages.

John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton win in physics; Demis Hassabis and John Jumper share the chemistry prize with David Baker.

Leaders and companies gather at Bharat Mandapam, New Delhi; the summit ends with a leaders’ declaration.