5782 AM · 2022 CE · world history
The Age of Artificial Intelligence
Machines begin to handle language, images and reasoning with confidence.
After decades of slow progress, neural networks change the picture abruptly: programs write text and code, translate, draw, answer questions and assist scientific research. The technology spreads faster than any before it. Hopes for medicine and education arrive together with worries about work, truth and responsibility.
Sources
Documents of the period
- documents and chronicles of the period — the release of large language models to the general public (2022–2023)
Scholarship
- general histories of the region — the fastest spread of any technology in history, and the arguments over its consequences
Basis: documents and evidence.