- 1956: Dartmouth Conference where AI was first defined and established as a field of study.
- 1956-1974: "Good Old-Fashioned Artificial Intelligence (GOFAI)" period, focused on symbolic reasoning and rule-based systems.
- The late 1970s-1980s: AI winter due to limited progress and funding cuts.
- The 1980s-1990s: Expert systems and the rise of statistical approaches such as decision trees.
- The late 1990s: Emergence of machine learning as a subfield of AI.
- 2006: Availability of large amounts of data and increased computing power leads to renewed interest in deep learning.
- The 2010s: Development of deep learning algorithms, leading to breakthroughs in computer vision, natural language processing, and robotics.
- The late 2010s: Widespread adoption of AI in industries such as finance, healthcare, and marketing.
- 2016: AlphaGo beats the world champion in the game of Go, marking a major milestone in AI.
- The 2020s: Continued growth and development of AI, including advancements in GPT-3 and reinforcement learning.