AI Chronicle - From Myth to Singularity

🌌 Myth and Origin

Ancient (Age of Myth)

Fire of Prometheus Prometheus steals fire (symbol of technology/intellect) from the gods and gives it to humanity. This becomes a metaphor for "great power that humans cannot handle".
💡 By the way, Zeus was furious. Prometheus was bound to a rock and sentenced to have his liver pecked by an eagle every day. This might be the work of the original AI regulator.
B.C.
Talos & Galatea "Talos", the guard robot protecting Crete, and "Galatea", the ideal woman sculpted by Pygmalion that came to life.
💡 The human karma of "wanting to create one's ideal partner (AI)" hasn't changed at all for thousands of years.

1920
Birth of the word "Robot" First used in Karel Čapek's play "R.U.R.". Derived from the Czech word "robota" (forced labor).
💡 In the play, robots eventually rebel and destroy humanity. It was a guaranteed bad ending from the start.
1956
Dartmouth Conference John McCarthy and others defined "Artificial Intelligence (AI)".
💡 The proposal stated, "If 10 scientists work for 2 months, almost all problems can be solved." One of the most optimistic estimates in human history.
1969
Marvin Minsky's Critique of "Perceptrons" AI heavyweight Minsky mathematically proved that "neural nets back then couldn't even solve XOR (Exclusive OR)" and dismissed them.
💡 This froze research funding, bringing the "First AI Winter". One genius's word stagnated the industry for 10 years.
1971

👶 Elon Musk Born (South Africa)
1985

👶 Sam Altman Born (USA)
1997
Deep Blue vs Kasparov Chess world champion defeated by IBM's AI.
💡 Defeated Kasparov raged, "AI made a move like a human! There must be a human operating it behind the scenes!"

2005
The Singularity Is Near Ray Kurzweil publishes his prophecy. Asserts "Machines will surpass humans in 2045".
💡 Many current AI developers (especially OpenAI and DeepMind crowds) read this in their youth and received "baptism".
2012
Google's Cat (The Cat Neuron) Google Brain learned from YouTube videos, and AI successfully recognized the concept of "Cat" on its own.
💡 Investing 16,000 CPUs, they arrived at the universal truth that "There are many cats on the internet".
2012
AlexNet (ImageNet) Hinton's team achieved a landslide victory using GPUs (GTX 580). Convinced everyone that "GPUs can be used for things other than gaming".
2016
AlphaGo vs Lee Sedol Go AI overwhelmed the world's strongest player. The "Move 37" that silenced commentators was later called the Hand of God.
2017
Attention Is All You Need Publication of the "Transformer" paper. The core technology of modern generative AI goes specifically to the world.

2022.11
ChatGPT Released The shock of conversational AI sweeps the world.
💡 Google was holding back LaMDA, but as a result, OpenAI's speed conquered the market.
2023.11
OpenAI Boardroom Coup (The 5 Days) Sam Altman's dismissal and return. Internal conflict over AI safety vs development speed comes to the surface.
2024
Strawberry (o1) New generation AI specialized in "Reasoning". Altman's pre-release SNS posts became a big topic in the community.
2025.01
DeepSeek Shock China's DeepSeek-V3 achieved "GPT-4 class performance at 1/100 cost". NVIDIA stock price temporarily plummeted, drastically changing the AI power map.
2025 Late
Practical Use of Video AI (Sora / Veo / Gen-4) Completely broke through the "Uncanny Valley". Parts of Hollywood movies began to be replaced by AI.
2026
Era of Antigravity Google finally lifts the ban on browser operation agents. From AI "Thinking" to "Executing" dimension.

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