1950
Turing
Computing Machinery and Intelligence frames machine intelligence as a question of behavior and interpretation. Source.
Landmarks
AI history for studio use.
This timeline gives enough history to situate the tools without turning the boot camp into an architecture lecture.
Timeline
1957
Rosenblatt Perceptron
An early neural network becomes a landmark in machine-learning history. Source.
2012
AlexNet wins ImageNet
Deep learning changes computer vision practice at public scale. Source.
2014
Generative Adversarial Networks
Goodfellow et al. introduce GANs, a major neural generation approach. Source.
2015
Diffusion foundations
Sohl-Dickstein et al. establish key diffusion-model foundations later used in image generation. Source.
2017
Attention Is All You Need
The transformer architecture becomes the foundation for much later generative AI. Source.
2020
GPT-3 scaling
Large-scale autoregressive language modeling becomes a public AI milestone. Source.
2022
Image generation public moment
DALL-E 2, Stable Diffusion, and Midjourney bring generated imagery into mainstream culture. Source.
2022
Colorado State Fair controversy
Jason Allen wins a fine-art prize with AI-generated work, triggering authorship debate. Source.
2023
Provenance lawsuits
NYT v. OpenAI and Getty v. Stability AI move training-data questions into court. Source.
2024
Generative video
Sora and Runway-era systems make generated video a general media issue. Source.
2025-26
Multimodal and agentic systems
Students increasingly encounter AI systems that combine media, tools, and workflow actions. Source.