AI didn’t start with ChatGPT but that’s when most people started paying attention.
While tools like ChatGPT have made AI a household name, the story of artificial intelligence goes back over 70 years. Visionaries like Alan Turing were asking if machines could think as early as the 1950s.
The evolution of AI has been far from linear. It’s a story of breakthroughs and setbacks, of AI springs and long AI winters. But with the public release of ChatGPT in 2022, something changed. Suddenly, AI wasn’t just in labs or research papers, it was in lesson plans, emails, creative writing, and every staff meeting.
So today, I created a visual that highlights 10 key moments in AI history based on the most influential readings I’ve come across. I stopped at 2022 because the last two years deserve a timeline of their own.
Feel free to use this visual in your PD sessions, classes, or presentations. And if you’re teaching in the age of AI, knowing where it all started helps you better navigate where it’s going.
10 Landmark Inventions in the Evolution of AI
Here are the main events and inventions that marked the evolution of AI:
- 1950 – The Turing Test
Alan Turing proposes a test for machine intelligence—can a machine mimic human conversation? - 1956 – Birth of AI
John McCarthy coins the term Artificial Intelligence at the Dartmouth Conference. - 1972 – MYCIN Expert System
One of the first AI programs to diagnose blood infections—early success in rule-based reasoning. - 1997 – Deep Blue Defeats Kasparov
IBM’s chess-playing AI beats the world champion—a milestone in game-based AI. - 2006 – Deep Learning Rises
Geoffrey Hinton’s work revives neural networks, laying groundwork for modern AI. - 2012 – AlexNet Wins ImageNet
A deep neural network crushes a major image recognition challenge—AI’s deep learning moment. - 2015 – AlphaGo Learns Go
DeepMind’s AI beats a human Go master, mastering a game long thought unreachable for machines. - 2017 – Transformers Introduced
Google’s “Attention Is All You Need” paper launches the architecture behind today’s LLMs. - 2020 – GPT-3 Released
OpenAI unveils a language model with 175 billion parameters—text generation hits a new level. - 2022 – ChatGPT Goes Public
OpenAI releases ChatGPT, sparking global adoption of generative AI in classrooms and beyond.
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