Google's AlphaGo Defeats 18-Time Go Champion Lee Sedol, 4–1
"Experts predicted it would take another decade."
Microsoft's AI Chatbot Turns Racist in Under 24 Hours, Pulled Offline Overnight
Amazon, Google Race to Put Voice Assistants in Every Home
Eight Google Researchers Quietly Publish a Paper That Will Change Everything
"Attention Is All You Need." One of the most cited scientific papers of the 21st century.
Saudi Arabia Grants Citizenship to a Robot
McKinsey: Up to 800 Million Jobs Could Be Displaced by Automation by 2030
OpenAI Declares Its Own AI "Too Dangerous to Release"
"GPT-2 generates coherent paragraphs of text. The lab fears what happens next."
Microsoft Invests $1 Billion in OpenAI
AI Defeats Professional Poker Players in Six-Player Game for the First Time
Eighteen months between "too dangerous to release" and "solves a problem biology couldn't for fifty years."
DeepMind's AlphaFold Cracks the 50-Year Protein Folding Problem
"AlphaFold scored 92.4 out of 100. The next best system scored 75."
GPT-3 Arrives: 175 Billion Parameters. Writes Essays, Code, and Poetry.
Canadian Startup Flagged Wuhan Outbreak Days Before WHO — Using AI
ChatGPT Reaches One Million Users in Five Days
"Instagram took two and a half years. TikTok took nine months."
AI-Generated Artwork Wins Colorado State Fair. Artists Are Furious.
Stable Diffusion Goes Open-Source. AI Image Generation Now Runs on Laptops.
The fastest-adopted technology in human history.
The first instinct was to ban it.
New York City Bans ChatGPT in Schools. Reverses the Ban Four Months Later.
30,000 Sign Open Letter Demanding a Pause on AI Development
"No lab paused."
Hollywood Writers and Actors Strike Simultaneously for the First Time Since 1960. AI Is a Key Issue.
And then something shifted.
Two Nobel Prizes Awarded to AI Researchers in a Single Year
"Physics and Chemistry. A historic first."
Perplexity, Built by a Four-Person Team, Reaches 100 Million Queries a Week
Khan Academy's AI Tutor Reaches 700,000 Students in a Single School Year
OpenAI Launches Operator, an Agent That Can Browse and Act on Its Own
"It doesn't wait for instructions. It executes."
Four MIT Graduates Build a Code Editor Worth $9 Billion With About 60 Employees
Solo-Founded Startups Rise to 36% of All New Companies
OpenAI CEO Bets on the First One-Person Billion-Dollar Company
Ten years ago it beat us at a board game.
Now it's waiting for us to tell it what matters.
Everything you just read happened in ten years.
I was fourteen when the first headline ran.
That year, I snuck into my first college hackathon.
By eighteen, I was asking rooms of educators:
are students ready to drive the change?
Two years later, I published my first paper.
Published in Frontiers in Education, 2024
We built a platform that lets TAs use AI to draft responses to student questions. They review and edit before posting.
Students couldn't tell the difference. TAs said it was easier.
AI didn't replace the work.
It replaced the waiting. For permission, for resources, for someone to say you're ready.
AI didn't give me purpose.
It gave me enough capability to discover what my purpose already was.
That's why I build.
So the next fourteen-year-old doesn't have to wait either.
