What was the biggest thing to happen in the field of AI?

Reddit r/artificial / 4/23/2026

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The author argues that the two biggest milestones in AI were AlphaGo and ChatGPT, each demonstrating breakthroughs in different ways.
AlphaGo is credited with showing that AI can outperform humans in areas thought to require human “intuition,” raising public awareness even among people unfamiliar with Go.
ChatGPT is portrayed as more transformative because it can fluently converse and help solve problems beyond its specific training scope, leading many people to use AI daily.
The author also notes that the Transformer architecture was a crucial underlying development that enabled ChatGPT to exist, even if non-experts may not understand its significance.

I personally think it’s either AlphaGo or ChatGPT. AlphaGo showed to the whole world that AIs can be better than its creators in an area that people believed needed ‘intuition’. Most people don’t know go, but it somewhat showed the potential of AI to the world. DeepBlue was also kinda similar to it, but for some reason most people don’t think DeepBlue as “An AI that beat human at chess”, so I’m not counting it.

ChatGPT was… on a different level. It was looked as revolutionary that a program can fluently speak and help solve problems it doesn’t specialize in. It made most people use AI in their everyday lives, so definitely takes the cake imo.

Edit: Ig the transformers was also very important, (literally why chatgpt was able to exist lol) but a layperson doesn’t know what that is nor why that matters, so…

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