Timeline
2024
November 7
September 4
OpenAI co-founder Sutskever's new safety-focused AI startup SSI raises $1 billion
September 3
UK school begins 'teacherless' class taught by AI
August 31
The first crypto transaction between AI agents
August 26
OpenAI supports California AI bill AB3211
OpenAI, Adobe and Microsoft support California bill AB3211
June 19
Ilya Sutskever, OpenAI’s co-founder is starting a new AI company focused on safety
June 11
Apple announces plan to boost Siri with ChatGPT
June 5
Leopold Aschenbrenner safety researcher at OpenAI is fired
June 4
OpenAI and Google DeepMind employees published an open letter
April 10
Google Announces AI Agents
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Google Cloud Next '24 Opening Keynote (Official)
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With Vertex AI Agent Builder, Google Cloud aims to simplify agent creation
February 13
Andrej Karpathy is leaving OpenAI for Personal Projects
February 12
Pause AI and No AGI Organized Protest Against Military AI and AGI @ OpenAI
February 16
California introduced AB 3211: California Digital Content Provenance Standards
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digitaldemocracy (detail tracking)
2023
November 30
Sam Altman Announces OpenAI's New Board
November 17 - 22
OpenAI Fires Sam Altman and Brings Him Back.
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OpenAI brings Sam Altman back as CEO less than a week after he was fired by board (Nov. 22)
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A timeline of Sam Altman’s firing from OpenAI — and the fallout
Videos
November 1
AI Safety Summit in UK
October 3
Google DeepMind created the Open X-Embodiment dataset and RT-X model
Sept 19
OpenAI invited people of different domains to join Red Team
Sept 12
Companies such as IBM and Nvidia promise to White House to build responsible AI
Sept 8
Blumenthal & Hawley Announce Bipartisan Framework on Artificial Intelligence Legislation
Sept 7
Time Magazine issued "TIME100 Most Influential People in AI"
Sept 6
Artists sign open letter for Generative AI
Sept 6
Apple Spending Millions of Dollars a Day on Conversational AI
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According to The Information, Apple has other AI goals. The company is aiming to develop a feature that would allow a voice assistant like Siri to automate multi-step tasks.
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Youtube Explanation: Apple Spending Millions Daily Training AI
Sept 4
Tesla Launches Nvidia's AI Cluster
Sept 2
Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU) has launched its new supercomputer named MSU-270 with a peak computational power of 400 'AI' PetaFLOPS.
Sept 1
Amazon introduced AI training Amazon One to scan customer palm for identification
Aug 30
AI beaten the world champions in drone racing
Aug 16
OpenAI Acquires Global Illumination
Aug 11-13
AI Village, SeedAI, and Humane Intelligence host a Red-Team trying to expose flaws of chatbots
Aug 10
US Department of Defense (DOD) Announces Establishment of Generative AI Task Force
Aug 8
Disney creates task force to explore AI and cut costs - sources
Aug 8
NVIDIA and Hugging Face to Connect Millions of Developers to Generative AI Supercomputing
July 24
OpenAI launched WorldCoin Orb officially.
July 21
DishBrain received funding to merge AI with human brain cells.
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Computer chip with built-in human brain tissue gets military funding
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Australian DishBrain team wins $600,000 grant to merge AI with human brain cells
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If ‘DishBrain’ can learn to play Pong – what does this mean for science?
July 21
Cofounder Sergey Brin returned to Google to help develop Gemini
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Former google director reacts to Sergey Brin's return to work on Gemini
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Why Google Co-Founder Is Back to Help With Gemini AI | WSJ Tech News Briefing
July 21
Apple’s Ajax: Large Language Model and GPT Developments
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Apple is indeed working on an artificial intelligence project referred to as "Apple GPT", which could rival OpenAI's ChatGPT. However, as of the time of this news, Apple does not yet have a "clear strategy" announced for creating a consumer product and no launch has been planned yet.
July 18
July 5
OpenAI Acknowledged the Danger of Superintelligence
- But the vast power of superintelligence could also be very dangerous, and could lead to the disempowerment of humanity or even human extinction.
- Currently, we don't have a solution for steering or controlling a potentially superintelligent AI, and preventing it from going rogue.
- Our goal is to build a roughly human-level automated alignment researcher. We can then use vast amounts of compute to scale our efforts, and iteratively align superintelligence.
July 1
Starts Charging third-party apps that require higher API calls
- Effective July 1, 2023, the rate for third-party apps that require higher usage limits is $0.24 per 1K API calls.
- Why everyone is freaking out about the Reddit API and blackout right now
- The End Of The Internet As We Know It?
June 28
OpenAI and Microsoft Were Sued for Their 'Privacy Violations'
- includes sixteen anonymous plaintiffs, claimed that OpenAI secretly “scraped 300 billion words from the internet” without registering as a data broker or obtaining consent. Microsoft is OpenAI's main customer and corporate partner, licensing AI technology from the company for billions of dollars.
- The lawsuit asks that OpenAI and Microsoft be enjoined from violating people's privacy, and take additional steps. Step one is to disclose what data is being collected and how it is being used. Step two, the plaintiffs wrote, is to follow a code of ethical principles and compensate plaintiffs for their stolen data. Finally, the lawsuit stated, internet users should have the right to opt out of any data collection and all illegal taking of data should stop.
June 20
The European Consumer Organisation (BEUC) calls to investigate generative AI risks
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Consumer groups call on regulators to investigate generative AI risks & enforce existing legislation
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Consumer group calls on EU to urgently investigate ‘the risks of generative AI’
June 7
US Senators take Meta to task for releasing LLaMA AI model after token safety checks
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Suggest that Zuck has yet again unleashed stuff without a thought for the downsides
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US senators Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) and Josh Hawley (R-MO) have asked Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg to address AI safety concerns after its large language system LLaMA was leaked online for anyone to download and use.
May 30-31
"Center for AI Safty" posted short statement concerning "the risk of extinction from AI". Sam Altman, CEO of ChatGPT-maker OpenAI, signed the statement.
May 16
Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, testified in Senate Hearing
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Five key takeaways from OpenAI’s CEO Sam Altman’s Senate hearing (Aljazeera)
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Microsoft Bing's Summary (Simon's prompt on June 6, 2023)
Here are some key takeaways from his testimony:
- Altman urged lawmakers to regulate AI technology before it’s too late.
- He warned that AI could be used to create fake news and propaganda.
- He said that AI could be used to create autonomous weapons that could be used in warfare.
- He called for more research into the potential risks of AI technology.
- He said that AI could be used to create new jobs and industries.
May 10
Google Announced the Coming New LLM, Gemini
May 1
Geoffrey Hinton Leaves Google
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AI 'godfather' Geoffrey Hinton warns of dangers as he quits Google (BBC)
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Breaking News: Geoffrey Hinton, the Father of AI, Leaves Google Amid Fears of AI Takeover (Linkedin)
April 7
OpenAI introduced Embodied AI known as Neo
Mar 22
Elon Musk Calls for Pause on AI Research
Mar 16
Microsoft Launched Microsoft 365 Copilot
"Copilot combines the power of large language models (LLMs) with your data in the Microsoft Graph—your calendar, emails, chats, documents, meetings, and more—and the Microsoft 365 apps to turn your words into the most powerful productivity tool on the planet."
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Introducing Microsoft 365 Copilot – your copilot for work (Official)
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Microsoft 365 Copilot Explained: How Microsoft Just Changed the Future of Work (Youtube)
Mar 14
OpenAI launched ChatGPT-4
Feb 7
Microsoft Bing was empowered by ChatGPT-3.5
2022
Nov 30
OpenAI launched ChatGPT-3.5 [Ref.]
June 12 - July 22
Blake Lemoine claimed that Google’s language technology is sentient, and finally got fired
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Google Engineer Claims AI Chatbot Is Sentient: Why That Matters
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Google engineer put on leave after saying AI chatbot has become sentient (June 12)
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The engineer who claimed a Google AI is sentient has been fired (July 22)
2020
June 11
OpenAI launched ChatGPT-3
2019
Feb 14
OpenAI launched ChatGPT-2
2018
June 11
OpenAI launched ChatGPT-1
2016
March 9-15
2015
October 5-9
AlphaGo versus Fan Hui, 5:0
2014
Date (?)
DeepMind formed AlphaGo research project
2010
Sept
Google launched DeepMind