Artificial Intelligence · Recorded milestone
Transformer architecture
Recorded year2017
Google's 'Attention Is All You Need' introduces the model behind modern language AI.
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Led to
- Infinite game worldsRecorded · 2019enables
- AlphaFoldRecorded · 2020enables
- GPT-3 few-shot language modelRecorded · 2020enables
- AI coding assistantsRecorded · 2021enables
- AI chat assistantsRecorded · 2022enables
- Constitutional AIRecorded · 2022enables
- Generative image modelsRecorded · 2022enables
- Near-human speech recognitionRecorded · 2022enables
- AI office copilotsRecorded · 2023requires
- Features found inside AI modelsRecorded · 2023enables
- Phone with on-device AIRecorded · 2023enables
- Robot foundation modelsRecorded · 2023enables
- AI that uses a computerRecorded · 2024requires
- Decoding animal communicationRecorded · 2024enables
- Factory humanoid pilotsRecorded · 2024enables
- AI model of Earth's surfaceRecorded · 2025enables
- AI music goes mainstreamRecorded · 2025enables
- Earbuds that edit what you hearForecast · ~2027enables
- Million-star technosignature searchForecast · ~2027enables
- Live audits of AI mindsForecast · ~2032enables
Sources & evidence
Dataset updated 2026-10-18. This individual record has not been separately re-reviewed.