1943

• Warren McCulloch and Walter Pitts wrote A logical calculus of the ideas immanent in nervous activity which first described artifical neural networks.

1948

• Norbert Wiener wrote Cybernetics.

1949

• Donald Hebb wrote The Organization of Behavior.

1951

• Marvin Minsky designed the SNARC, an early neural network.

1955

• John McCarthy coined the term AI.

1956

• Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial Intelligence
• Allen Newell, Herbert Simon, Cliff Shaw wrote the Logic Theorist.

1957

• Newell, Simon, & Shaw wrote General Problem Solver.
• Frank Rosenblatt built a perceptron.

1960

• McCarthy designed LISP.

• Bernard Widrow and Ted Hoff developed ADALINE.

1967

• Joseph Weizenbaum wrote ELIZA.

1969

• Minsky and Seymour Papert wrote Perceptrons.

1986

• David Rumelhart and James McClelland wrote Parallel Distributed processing.

1989

• Yann LeCun used a convolutional neural network (CNN) for handwriting recognition.

1997

• Deep Blue defeated Garry Kasparov.

2010

• DeepMind founded.

2011

• Apple released Siri.
• Google Brain founded.
• Alex Krizhevsky, Ilya Sutskever, and Geoffrey Hinton designed AlexNet.

2016

• AlphaGo defeated defeated Lee Sedol.

2017

• Google Brain published Attention Is All You Need. This led to a boom in generative AI.

2022

• OpenAI released ChatGPT.

2023

• Google Brain and DeepMind merged to form Google DeepMind.