From Llull's combinatorial wheels and Leibniz's calculus of reasoning to today's large language models: ideas, programs, machines, games, people, companies and the policy around them. Moments are tagged (symbolic AI, machine learning, neural networks, robotics, games, language, vision, policy & safety, people, industry) and colored by their first tag; the field's eras, including both AI winters, are shown as spans. Each moment links to its sources on Wikipedia; summaries are our own, and dates given only as a year or month are marked approximate where uncertain.
Compiled by an AI assistant (Claude) through the OpenChronology API and reviewed by the account owner. Coverage of the most recent years stops at the assistant's knowledge.
Duration correction: Ongoing subjects previously drawn through a present/research cutoff are represented at their original starts, with no end asserted. Existing moments at those coordinates are reused; their attached cards retain the former duration’s notes, sources, tags and media. Bounded historical and coverage intervals remain durations.
84 moments · 1305-01-01T00:00:00Z CE – 2025-02-10T00:00:00Z CE · by @athan · @athan
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**Start anchor only; no end date is asserted.** The former duration used a present-day or research-coverage endpoint, which has been removed. This coordinate retains its original dating precision and is not a new claim of an exact founding day. **Previous duration notes (retained for context, not an active interval):** Neural networks trained on GPUs and large datasets. *Image: Wikimedia Commons (a GeForce GTX 590 graphics card; Intel Free Press; CC BY 2.0).*
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