The brief history of artificial intelligence: The world has changed fast – what might be next? - Our World in Data

The language and image recognition capabilities of AI systems have developed very rapidly. The chart shows how we got here by zooming into the last two decades of AI development. The plotted data stems from a number of tests in which human and AI performance were evaluated in five different domains, from handwriting recognition to language understanding. Within each of the five domains the initial performance of the AI system is set to -100, and human performance in these tests is used as a baseline that is set to zero. This means that when the model's performance crosses the zero line is when the AI system scored more points in the relevant test than the humans who did the same test.2