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Karthig Studio

Building small tools with open data and AI

The Evolution of AI

From early ideas to modern artificial intelligence

  1. Today

    Karthig Studio

    Inspired by the rise of AI, exploring new ways to build and create.

  2. 2020s

    Generative AI

    New ways to explore, understand and create become available to almost everyone.

  3. 2010s

    Open data

    More of the world’s information opens up for anyone to explore and reuse.

  4. 2007

    The smartphone era

    The internet moves into our pockets and follows us everywhere.

  5. 1990s

    Search engines

    A growing web becomes easier to explore.

  6. 1989

    The World Wide Web

    Information finds a new way to travel around the world.

  7. 1980s

    The personal computer

    Computing begins moving from institutions into everyday life.

  8. 1969

    ARPANET

    Computers begin talking to each other across a network.

  9. 1950s

    Artificial intelligence

    Researchers begin asking whether machines can learn and think.

  10. 1940s

    Modern computing

    Electronic computers open a new way to process information.

  11. 1920s

    Radio

    Voices, news and stories reach millions at once.

  12. 1876

    The telephone

    Voices begin travelling across distance.

  13. 1840s

    The telegraph

    Messages begin travelling faster than people.

  14. 1440s

    The printing press

    Ideas become easier to copy, preserve and share.

  15. ~5,000 years ago

    Writing

    Thoughts begin to outlive the people who had them.

  16. ~10,000 years ago

    Agriculture

    People settle, communities grow and new worlds begin to form.

  17. ~300,000 years ago

    Homo sapiens

    We begin to wonder, share and create.

  18. ~3.5 billion years ago

    Life

    Something begins to reproduce, adapt and evolve.

  19. 4.54 billion years ago

    Earth

    A world takes shape.

  20. 13.8 billion years ago

    The universe

    Everything begins.