The History of Artificial Intelligence
An interactive chronicle of the concepts, people, and organizations that shaped AI — decade by decade, from Turing's 1936 abstractions to today's frontier models. Every entry connected in a knowledge graph, many explained in curated videos.
Concepts
124 entriesThe ideas and breakthroughs — from the Turing Test to transformers and beyond.
Browse conceptsPeople
161 entriesThe researchers and builders behind the field, from Turing and McCarthy to today.
Browse peopleOrganizations
124 entriesThe labs, universities, and companies where the breakthroughs happened.
Browse organizationsAlso: the news feed of major developments, data visualizations, and about this project.
Browse by decade
Nine decades in nine milestones
Turing Machine
Theoretical foundation of computation and algorithmic processes.
The Turing Test
A benchmark for machine intelligence based on conversational indistinguishability from humans.
Dartmouth Conference
The founding event of Artificial Intelligence as an academic field.
The Perceptron
The first trainable artificial neural network algorithm.
Backpropagation Revival
Practical implementation of the backpropagation algorithm for multi-layer neural networks.
Deep Blue Chess Victory
The first computer to defeat a reigning world chess champion under tournament conditions.
AlexNet
The deep CNN that sparked the deep learning revolution by crushing the ImageNet benchmark.
Transformer Architecture
The defining neural network architecture, built on 'self-attention' instead of recurrence.
ChatGPT
The conversational AI interface that reached 100 million users in two months.