Event
Events
Turning points: workshops, matches, launches, winters, prizes and laws.
2010s
- AlphaGo beats Lee Sedol2016
Four games to one in Seoul. Go was thought to be a decade away. Move 37 in game two surprised every professional watching.
- OpenAI founded2015
A non-profit with $1 billion pledged by Musk, Altman, Thiel, Hoffman and others, to build AI that benefits humanity.
- Google acquires DeepMind2014
About $500 million for a London lab with no product. The deal that set the price of AI talent.
- AlexNet wins ImageNet 20122012
A deep CNN trained on GPUs cuts the top-5 error from 26% to 15%. Every vision group switched to deep learning within a year.