Software engineering
AI milestones in software engineering, part of computing and software.
3 milestones
OpenAI launches ChatGPT as a free research preview
OpenAI released ChatGPT on 30 November 2022 as a free research preview built on GPT-3.5. It reached one million users within five days, and analysts at UBS estimated roughly 100 million monthly users by January 2023, a pace that had taken TikTok nine months and Instagram about two and a half years.
GitHub Copilot becomes generally available as a paid product
GitHub made Copilot generally available on 21 June 2022 at ten dollars a month, free to verified students and to maintainers of popular open source projects. It had run as a technical preview since June 2021 and suggests code inside the editor, drawing on Codex, a model trained on public code.
Smalltalk-72 Developed at Xerox PARC by Alan Kay, Dan Ingalls, and Adele Goldberg
In 1972, Alan Kay and Dan Ingalls at Xerox PARC produced Smalltalk-72, the first working implementation of the Smalltalk language, which embodied Kay's concept of object-oriented programming in which all computation proceeds by objects sending messages to one another.