AI History

The milestones that brought AI this far, and why they still matter.

This day in AI history · October 19, 2023

AI learns to help Wikipedia find better citations

On October 19, 2023, researchers mostly from FAIR at Meta published SIDE, an AI system that flags weak Wikipedia citations and recommends better ones.

via Nature Machine Intelligence
This day in AI history · October 18, 2017

AlphaGo Zero teaches itself Go from scratch

On October 18, 2017, DeepMind unveiled AlphaGo Zero, a Go program that learned purely by playing itself and beat its champion predecessor 100 games to 0.

via Google DeepMind