AI, machine learning, and the future of technology.
1 quizzesArtificial intelligence went from academic curiosity to civilisational turning point in less than a decade. The field has roots as old as Alan Turing's 1950 paper "Computing Machinery and Intelligence" and the 1956 Dartmouth Workshop where the term was coined, but for most of its history AI lived through long "winters" of disillusionment between brief bursts of progress. What changed in the 2010s was the combination of deep neural networks, massive GPU compute, and internet-scale data — producing results that looked like magic.
The milestones came fast. AlexNet won the 2012 ImageNet competition and kicked off the deep learning era. AlphaGo beat world champion Lee Sedol in 2016, a feat experts thought was decades away. The Transformer architecture in 2017 unlocked modern language models. GPT-3 in 2020, ChatGPT in November 2022, Claude, Gemini, and Llama each pushed the frontier of what AI could write, reason about, and create. Generative image models like DALL·E, Midjourney, and Stable Diffusion did the same for visual art.
Behind the headlines sit the researchers: Geoffrey Hinton, Yann LeCun, Yoshua Bengio — the "godfathers" who won the 2018 Turing Award. Labs like OpenAI, Anthropic, DeepMind, , and race to push capabilities while debating the safety questions that come with them. This subcategory covers the history, key figures, architectures, and landmark moments of the field redefining modern life.
