AI - The Time Line

In 1950, Alan Turing (famous for breaking the Nazi's ENIGMA code during WWII) published a landmark paper, Computing Machinery and Intelligence.

He posed the question, 74 years ago, "Can machines think?"

In the paper (found here) he speculates about the possibility of creating machines that think. Turing went on to create the test known as the Turing test, aimed at determining whether a computer can think like a human being.

The term AI has been around for a long time, but from what I understand this paper was one of the seminal moments: https://research.google/blog/transformer-a-novel-neural-network-architecture-for-language-understanding/. August 31, 2017 by Jakob Uszkoreit, Software Engineer, Natural Language Understanding

This development appears to have led to the explosion in AI capabilities that we see today.

For me, it was the development of Open AI's ChatGPT 4 along with their voice to text 'Whisper' model that I became convinced of the unbelievable potential AI now presents.

This was April last year (2023) for me.