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Canonical page: https://postcutoff.com/timeline/2017/

# AI in 2017

3 events: 2 major, 2 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.

## December 2017, 1 event (1 major, 1 historic)

Month page: https://postcutoff.com/timeline/2017/12/

- 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

## November 2017, 1 event

Month page: https://postcutoff.com/timeline/2017/11/

- 2017-11-11: [Andrej Karpathy's essay "Software 2.0"](https://postcutoff.com/e/2017-11-11-karpathy-software-2-0/). Source: https://karpathy.medium.com/software-2-0-a64152b37c35

## June 2017, 1 event (1 major, 1 historic)

Month page: https://postcutoff.com/timeline/2017/06/

- 2017-06-12: ['Attention Is All You Need' introduces the Transformer](https://postcutoff.com/e/2017-06-12-transformer/). Source: https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.03762