timescale.infoThe history of artificial intelligence
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.
78 moments · 1305-01-01T00:00:00Z CE – 2025-01-20T00:00:00Z CE · by @athan · @athan
TD-Gammon
Gerald Tesauro's backgammon program learns by temporal-difference reinforcement learning to play near the level of the best humans.