Artificial Intelligence · Recorded milestone
Deep learning breakthrough
Recorded year2012
AlexNet, trained on GPUs, wins ImageNet by a wide margin and ignites modern AI.
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- Adversarial examplesRecorded · 2013enables
- Neural style transferRecorded · 2015enables
- Robot-staffed hotelRecorded · 2015enables
- Smart speakerRecorded · 2015requires
- AI accelerator chipsRecorded · 2016enables
- Algorithmic short-video feedRecorded · 2016enables
- AlphaGoRecorded · 2016enables
- Computational photographyRecorded · 2016enables
- Neural machine translationRecorded · 2016enables
- Neural speech synthesisRecorded · 2016enables
- Self-flying camera droneRecorded · 2016enables
- AI friend appsRecorded · 2017enables
- AI scene descriptionRecorded · 2017enables
- Fully robotic farmsRecorded · 2017enables
- Transformer architectureRecorded · 2017enables
- AI artwork sold at auctionRecorded · 2018enables
- AI coaching from videoRecorded · 2018enables
- AI-traced building mapsRecorded · 2018enables
- Algorithmic bias auditsRecorded · 2018enables
- Burger-flipping robotRecorded · 2018enables
- Face-scan boardingRecorded · 2018enables
- Lights-out warehousesRecorded · 2018requires
- Sidewalk delivery robotsRecorded · 2018enables
- AI orchestrasRecorded · 2019enables
- Data written in glassRecorded · 2019enables
- Spot robot dog on saleRecorded · 2019enables
- AI finds a new antibioticRecorded · 2020enables
- Cuffless blood-pressure watchRecorded · 2020enables
- Driverless robotaxi serviceRecorded · 2020enables
- AI camera glassesRecorded · 2021requires
- Self-defending networksRecorded · 2021enables
- Autonomous farm robotsRecorded · 2022enables
- Robot does keyhole surgery aloneRecorded · 2022enables
- AI weather forecastingRecorded · 2023enables
- AI-discovered materialsRecorded · 2023enables
- Plant signalling decodedRecorded · 2023enables
- Eye-and-hand computingRecorded · 2024requires
- Whole fly-brain connectomeRecorded · 2024requires
- Wireless brain implantRecorded · 2024enables
- Countertop cooking robotRecorded · 2025enables
- E-bike that watches the trafficRecorded · 2026enables
- Blood test for many cancersForecast · ~2027enables
- AI reads every screening scanForecast · ~2028enables
- Ads priced by attentionForecast · ~2029enables
- AI screening for learning differencesForecast · ~2029enables
- Wildfire-spotting satellitesForecast · ~2030enables
- AI-found ore depositsForecast · ~2031enables
- Farm lights tuned plant by plantForecast · ~2031enables
- Mosquito-zapping garden laserForecast · ~2032enables
- Universal content provenanceForecast · ~2035requires
- Personal flying vehiclesForecast · ~2036requires
Sources & evidence
Dataset updated 2026-10-18. This individual record has not been separately re-reviewed.