The following is a list of events of the year 2021 in artificial intelligence.
Events Anthropic is founded.
January January 5 – DALL-E is released. January 5 – OpenAI introduces CLIP, a neural network trained to learn visual concepts from natural language supervision.
April April 21 – The European Commission proposes the Artificial Intelligence Act, the first comprehensive legal framework for artificial intelligence, establishing rules based on different levels of risk.
May May 18 – Google introduces LaMDA, a language model designed for dialogue applications. May 18 – Google introduces the Multitask Unified Model (MUM), a model designed to perform multiple tasks and work across multiple languages and modalities.
June June 29 – GitHub announces GitHub Copilot for technical preview.
July July 15 – DeepMind publishes its AlphaFold 2 protein structure prediction system in Nature and releases its source code. July 22 – DeepMind and EMBL-EBI launch the AlphaFold Protein Structure Database, providing more than 350,000 predicted protein structures, including the human proteome, for open access.
August August 10 – OpenAI introduces Codex, a GPT-3-based model designed to translate natural language into code and used to power GitHub Copilot.
October October 22 – NATO adopts its first strategy on artificial intelligence, establishing principles for the responsible use of AI in defence and security.
November November 23 – UNESCO adopts the Recommendation on the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence, the first global standard on AI ethics.
December December 8 – DeepMind introduces Gopher, a 280-billion-parameter language model that achieves strong performance across a broad range of language tasks.
See also Timeline of artificial intelligence
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