The Accelerating History of AI

From ancient dreams of intelligent automata to today's intelligence explosion — the timeline plays automatically below. Use the track to jump to any point, or browse the full event list.

Estimated AI capability over time —

Capability is an illustrative index, not a measured value — the point is the shape: near-flat for millennia, then a near-vertical spike as deep learning and large language models arrive.

Antiquity ~1800 ~1950 ~2000 Present

↗ Events accelerate exponentially — notice how breakthroughs cluster in recent decades