How well do you know the history of AI?
Artificial intelligence did not begin with ChatGPT. The field stretches back to Alan Turing in 1950 and the Dartmouth workshop that named it in 1956, through decades of booms, winters, and breakthroughs. This quiz walks you through the milestones that shaped modern AI — from the perceptron and ELIZA to Deep Blue, AlphaGo, the transformer, and the large language models that now dominate the headlines.
How it works
Each question describes a landmark moment in AI history and asks for its year or the people responsible. Pick your answer, then submit to see whether you were right along with a short explanation of why the event mattered. At the end you get a score and a list of milestones worth revisiting. There is exactly one correct answer per question.
Tips for learning the AI timeline
- Anchor the bookends. The Turing Test (1950) and the Dartmouth workshop (1956) sit at the start; ChatGPT (2022) and GPT-4 (2023) anchor the recent end.
- Remember the game-playing milestones. Deep Blue beating Kasparov at chess (1997) and AlphaGo beating Lee Sedol at Go (2016) are easy reference points.
- The 2012-2017 stretch matters most. AlexNet (2012) sparked the deep learning boom, and the transformer paper (2017) made today’s LLMs possible.
- Group the modern wave. GPT-3 (2020), ChatGPT (2022), GPT-4 and Llama (2023) follow in quick succession — knowing their order helps place everything else.