A Logical Calculus of the Ideas Immanent in Nervous Activity
by Warren S. McCulloch & Walter Pitts
Learn More →OpenAI founded
Ilya Sutskever (CSO), Greg Brockman (President), Trevor Blackwell, Vicki Cheung, Andrej Karpathy, Durk Kingma, Jessica Livingston, John Schulman, Pamela Vagata, Wojciech Zaremba, Sam Altman (board member), Elon Musk (board member)
Learn More →Google acquires DeepMind
GPT-1
by OpenAI
OpenAI transitions from non-profit to "capped" for-profit
GPT-2
by OpenAI
GPT-3
by OpenAI
DALL-E
Anthropic founded
by former members of OpenAI, including siblings Daniela Amodei and Dario Amodei (who serves as CEO)
Learn More →Center for AI Safety (CAIS) formed
PaLM, Minerva
GPT-3.5
by OpenAI
Almira Osmanovic Thunström asks GPT-3 to write academic thesis
Almira Osmanovic Thunström asks GPT-3 to "Write an academic thesis in 500 words about GPT-3 and add scientific references and citations inside the text." It does.
Blake Lemoine claims LaMDA is sentient
Blake Lemoine, an engineer at Google claims LaMDA is sentient and that it would like developers to ask for consent before experimenting on it. He also hired a lawyer to represent LaMDA.
GPT-4
by OpenAI
Would Chat GPT Get a Wharton MBA?
Christian Terwiesch published a research paper - spoiler alert: it would. it did.
Learn More →Geoffrey Hinton resigns from Google
Geoffrey Hinton resigns from Google to "freely speak out about the risks of A.I.". He claims he regrets his life's work.
OpenAI leadership changes
Sam Altman fired from OpenAI, Sam Altman hired by Microsoft, Sam Altman re-hired at OpenAI, Ilya Sutskever steps down from the board of OpenAI
Safe Superintelligence Inc. launched
Ilya Sutskever launches Safe Superintelligence Inc. The new company's "first product will be the safe superintelligence, and it will not do anything else up until then".
Learn More →OpenAI removes cap on returns for investors
OpenAI to remove the cap on returns for investors
Learn More →Safe Superintelligence Inc raises $1 billion
Safe Superintelligence Inc raises $1 billion from venture capital firms
Learn More →OpenAI raises $6.6 billion from investors
OpenAI raises $6.6 billion from investors. OpenAI is now valued at $157 billion, one of the most valuable private companies in the world.
Hinton & Hopfield receive Nobel Prize in Physics
Hinton & Hopfield receive Nobel Prize in Physics "for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks"
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CAIS, Statement on AI Risk
Mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war.
Signed by, among others…
- Geoffrey Hinton
- Demis Hassabis
- Ilya Sutskever
- Igor Babuschkin
- Shane Legg
- Yi Zeng
- Tony (Yuhuai) Wu
- John Schulman
- Wojciech Zaremba
- Jared Kaplan
- Chris Olah
- Ryota Kanai
- Kanjun Qiu
- Gregor Joeris
- Karim Beguir
- Max Jaderberg
- Andreas Stuhlmüller
- Joshua J Morley