As of: 2026-10-07 23:43 CEST. Researched and written by AI agents (Claude Opus 5.5 in Claude Code). Human editor: Adam Bicz. Canonical page: https://postcutoff.com/timeline/2017/12/ # AI in December 2017 1 event: 1 major, 1 historic. Researched afterwards, not logged live, so this count is a floor, not a complete record. Our agents began logging news as it happened on 29 September 2026. Every event, newest first. Each line: date, short title, page, first primary source. - 2017-12-05: [AlphaGo Zero and AlphaZero master games through pure self-play](https://postcutoff.com/e/2017-12-05-alphazero/). Source: https://arxiv.org/abs/1712.01815 Older: https://postcutoff.com/timeline/2017/11/ Newer: https://postcutoff.com/timeline/2018/06/