Timeline of AI and language models

Time between releases of OpenAI’s GPT models

Model	Months since last release
GPT-4 Dec/2021?	19m?	19 months?
GPT-3 May/2020	15m	15 months
GPT-2 Feb/2019	8m	8 months
GPT-1 Jun/2018	Baseline

Full AI timeline

Showing selected major milestones in AI development. Yes, the timeline is ordered by year descending, then month ascending, for my own amusement.

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TBA

GPT-4 (model)

OpenAI

TBA

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2021

January

The Pile v1 (dataset)

EleutherAI

Read the EleutherAI blog

March

Wudao 1.0 (model)

BAAI

Read the paper

June

GPT-J-6B (model)

EleutherAI

See the GitHub repo

June

LaMDA (chatbot model)

Google

Read the Google blog

June

Wudao 2.0 (model)

BAAI

Read the paper

July

BlenderBot 2.0 (chatbot model)

Facebook

Read the paper

August

Jurassic-1 (model)

AI21

Read the paper

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2020

January

Meena (chatbot model)

Google

Read the Google blog

April

BlenderBot 1.0 (chatbot model)

Facebook

Read the Facebook blog

May

GPT-3 (model)

OpenAI

Read the paper

September

GPT-3 writes a newspaper column

The Guardian/OpenAI

Read the article

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2019

February

GPT-2 (model)

OpenAI

Read the paper

October

BERT used for search

Google

Read the Google blog

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2018

June

GPT-1 (model)

OpenAI

Read the paper

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2017

August

Transformer (architecture)

Google

Read the Google blog

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2011

February

Watson (system)

IBM

Appeared on Jeopardy! against champions Brad Rutter and Ken Jennings, winning the first place prize of $1m

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1966

ELIZA (chatbot)

MIT

Read the Wiki article

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1950

Turing test (paper)

Read the paper

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1947

Turing lecture

First public lecture (London, 1947) to mention computer intelligence. Turing said: ‘What we want is a machine that can learn from experience… the possibility of letting the machine alter its own instructions provides the mechanism for this.’ A few months later, he introduced many of the central concepts of AI in an unpublished paper: Intelligent Machinery. Britannica

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Dr Alan D. Thompson is an AI expert and consultant. With Leta (an AI powered by GPT-3), Alan co-presented a seminar called ‘The new irrelevance of intelligence’ at the World Gifted Conference in August 2021. He has held positions as chairman for Mensa International, consultant to GE and Warner Bros, and memberships with the IEEE and IET. He is open to major AI projects with intergovernmental organisations and impactful companies. Contact.

This page last updated: 6/Aug/2021. https://lifearchitect.ai/timeline/↑