The Intelligence Age: A History of AI

From ancient automata to modern neural networks — the story of thinking machines

75 Milestones
700+ Years of history
∞ Growing daily
Benjamin Mann

Johnston, Frances Benjamin, 1864-1952, photographer / Public domain

Benjamin Mann

Civil Rights Advocate

  • Served as a prominent intellectual figure in the American civil rights movement.
  • Taught and mentored many influential leaders including Martin Luther King Jr.

Benjamin Mann was an American Baptist minister and civil rights leader who laid the intellectual groundwork for the civil rights movement, influencing leaders such as Martin Luther King Jr.

Milestones

  • The 175 Billion Parameter Surprise
    The Age of Foundation Models Research
    The 175 Billion Parameter Surprise

    OpenAI's GPT-3 demonstrated that scaling up language models could produce emergent abilities no one explicitly programmed, igniting the foundation model era.

    2020
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