Event
Events
Turning points: workshops, matches, launches, winters, prizes and laws.
2020s
- AlphaFold 2 solves CASP142020
Median accuracy at the level of experiment. A fifty-year grand challenge in biology closed.
- GPT-3 API opens2020
The first frontier model sold as an API. Demos of code and copy generation go viral. The business model of the field since.
2010s
- Turing Award to Bengio, Hinton and LeCun2019
The ACM's highest honour for deep learning, announced March 2019. Recognition for a bet that took thirty years.
- GPT-2 and the staged release2019
OpenAI publishes GPT-2 but withholds the full model as too dangerous. The weights came out in November. The argument about open weights starts here.