# The great milestones of artificial intelligence

From the artificial neuron of 1943 and the Turing test to Deep Blue, AlphaGo, ChatGPT and DeepSeek: the moments that made AI what it is today. Which one changed everything?

- 17 votes · 20 items
- Apr 9, 2026 · cycliste_curieux
- https://even.best/en/l/2955/the-great-milestones-of-artificial-intelligence

## Top 20

1. **The Dartmouth conference (1956)** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — The birth of the term "artificial intelligence".
2. **The perceptron (1958)** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Frank Rosenblatt and the first learning machine.
3. **Deep Blue beats Kasparov (1997)** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — IBM's computer beats the world chess champion.
4. **DeepSeek V3 and R1 (2024–2025)** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — A cutting-edge Chinese model trained for a fraction of the cost.
5. **The McCulloch–Pitts neuron (1943)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — The first mathematical model of a neuron.
6. **The Turing test (1950)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — "Can a machine think?"
7. **ELIZA and Shakey the robot (1966)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — The first chatbot and the first reasoning robot.
8. **Backpropagation (1986)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Neural networks learn from their mistakes.
9. **GANs (2014)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Two competing AIs that create images.
10. **DQN masters Breakout (2015)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — DeepMind learns to play Atari games by itself.
11. **AlphaGo beats Lee Sedol (2016)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Go, thought to be out of reach, falls.
12. **LLaMA (2023)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Meta's open model.
13. **The DARPA Grand Challenge (2005)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — The self-driving car Stanley covers 212 km on its own.
14. **AlexNet (2012)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Deep learning crushes image recognition.
15. **The Transformer (2017)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Google's architecture behind large language models.
16. **AlphaFold (2020)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Predicting the shape of proteins.
17. **GPT-3 (2020)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 175 billion parameters.
18. **PaLM and scaling laws (2022)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — The bigger the model, the better it works.
19. **ChatGPT (2022)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — A million users in five days.
20. **Watson wins Jeopardy! (2011)** (-1 · ▲0 ▼1) — IBM triumphs on the TV quiz.

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