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In April 2019 the EU High-Level Expert Group on AI published ethics guidelines that define trustworthy AI as lawful, ethical and robust, and set out seven requirements for AI systems, later turned into a piloted assessment list.
In March 2019 Baidu released ERNIE, a Chinese language model that models entities and phrases directly, and reported that it outperformed Google's BERT on several Chinese language tasks.
On 14 February 2019 OpenAI announced GPT-2, a 1.5-billion-parameter Transformer that performed several language tasks without task-specific training. It did not release the full model at first, instead releasing it in stages.
On 11 February 2019 the US president signed an executive order creating the American AI Initiative, a coordinated federal strategy that made AI a budget priority and set agencies deadlines on data access, standards and regulation.
On 8 May 2018, at its I/O developer conference, Google announced Duplex, a system that holds natural-sounding phone conversations to complete narrow tasks such as scheduling certain appointments.
On May 10, 2017, NVIDIA unveiled Volta, its seventh-generation GPU architecture, together with the Tesla V100 data center GPU, presented as the most powerful GPU computing architecture yet for AI and high performance computing.
In April 2017 Baidu launched Apollo, an open platform giving partners vehicle, hardware and software platforms plus cloud data services, which Baidu hoped would become the Android of the automotive world.
PyTorch was publicly released in January 2017 as a beta, with first-class Python integration and an imperative style. Built by people from the Lua Torch community with Facebook's backing, it later became a widely used deep-learning framework.
On 5 December 2016 Amazon showed a prototype food store in Seattle, Amazon Go, where shoppers would be charged automatically instead of queuing at a checkout.
On 13 October 2016 Alibaba Cloud announced a Hangzhou project, led by the municipal government, that used its ET AI programme and big-data analytics to predict traffic in real time and adjust traffic lights.
On 27 September 2016 Google Research announced GNMT, a neural machine translation system it put into production for Chinese-to-English on Google Translate, reporting large cuts in translation errors.
At its I/O conference in May 2016, Google introduced the Google assistant, previewed the Google Home speaker that brings it into the house, and showed the Allo and Duo apps that carry it on phones.
In May 2016 Google disclosed the Tensor Processing Unit, a custom chip built for machine learning that had already run in its data centers for over a year and powered RankBrain, Street View and AlphaGo.
On 9 November 2015 Google released TensorFlow, its second-generation machine learning system, as open source under the Apache 2.0 licence, letting people outside Google build and train models with the same system Google used in its own products.
On 14 October 2015 Tesla announced Version 7.0 of its car software, which switched on Autopilot: lane steering, turn-signal lane changes and traffic-aware cruise control, running on sensor hardware the Model S had been carrying since the year before.
On 27 May 2014, Google published a design for a self-driving prototype with no steering wheel or pedals and said it planned to build about a hundred vehicles and test them with safety drivers.
On 2 April 2014 at Build, Microsoft unveiled Windows Phone 8.1 and introduced Cortana, a Bing-powered personal assistant with a Halo-inspired persona, a developer API and a rollout starting with a U.S. beta.
On 1 December 2013 Jeff Bezos announced Prime Air on CBS's 60 Minutes: drones to deliver packages within 30 minutes, carrying up to 2.3 kg within about 16 km of a warehouse, pending FAA rules and years of testing.
In September 2012 Rethink Robotics unveiled Baxter, a robot with sensors and software to help it see and understand its environment, priced at $22,000 and set to go on sale in October 2012.
Google announced Google Now at its I/O conference in June 2012, presenting it as an Android search experience that shows cards like weather, traffic and sports scores without the user searching. It arrived alongside Android 4.1 Jelly Bean and the Nexus 7 tablet.
On 16 May 2012 Google announced the Knowledge Graph, an attempt to move search from matching strings to identifying entities; at launch it held more than 500 million objects.
