OpenAIs Dota 2 bot beats Dendi, a top professional player, in 1v1 midlane at The International. Reinforcement learning in complex video…

Apple launches iPhone X with Face ID and a dedicated Neural Engine. Neural network inference becomes a standard feature on consumer phones.

DeepMind publishes AlphaGo Zero. The system learns Go from random play, no human data required, surpassing all prior versions in 40 days.

Boston Dynamics releases a video of Atlas performing a backflip. The clip goes viral and redefines public perception of what humanoid…

DeepMind publishes AlphaZero, a single algorithm that masters chess, shogi, and Go from scratch. It demolishes Stockfish in chess and sets…

Google Research releases BERT, a Transformer-based pre-trained language model. BERT dominates GLUE benchmarks and reshapes NLP for the next…

SpaceXs Falcon Heavy launches, sending a Tesla Roadster with "Starman" toward Mars orbit. Autonomous landing of all three boosters proves…

An Uber self-driving test vehicle strikes and kills a pedestrian in Tempe, Arizona. The incident pauses AV testing industry-wide and drives…

GDPR takes effect. AI-powered profiling and automated decision-making face the first real legal constraints. "Right to explanation" becomes…

Google CEO Sundar Pichai demos Duplex at I/O — an AI placing a phone call to a hair salon and negotiating an appointment. The…

OpenAI announces its OpenAI Five bots for the full 5v5 Dota 2 game. Months of distributed training set up a showcase match at The…

OpenAI releases GPT-1, a Transformer-based language model trained with unsupervised pre-training and supervised fine-tuning. Quiet release,…