THE AI REVOLUTION: Catapulting Into A New Era

Milestones in Machine Minds: AI’s Big Moments
1950 Turing Test Introduced - Alan Turing proposed a test for machine intelligence
1956 Birth of AI - The term "Artificial Intelligence" coined at the Dartmouth Conference
1969 Apranet Launches - The first version of the internet goes live
1989 World Wide Web Invented - Tim Berners-Lee proposes the web, transforming global access to info 
1997 Deep Blue Beats Kasparov - first AI to defeat a raining world chess champion 
2012 Deep Learning Breakthrough - AlexNet wins ImageNet, igniting modern AI 
2016 Alpha Go Wins at Go - AI defeats human champion in the world’s most complex board game 2020 Generative AI Rises - OpenAI releases GPT-3, showcasing in human-like language abilities
2023 AI Goes Mainstream - ChatGPT and image generators (e.g. DALL-E) become household tools
FUTURE Artificial General Intelligence - AI that can understand, learn, and apply knowledge across a wide wide range of tasks at or beyond human level 

Behind the Buzz: What the Numbers Really Say About AI 
80 to 90% of people already use AI, they just don’t know it 
30 to 40% of people think they use AI 
70% would sacrifice privacy for AI-tailored routines 
68% trust AI recommendations over traditional marketing claims 
86% are open to fully personalized AI-generated beauty products

Future-Proof Skills: What Tomorrow’s Talent Needs Today 
AI literacy
prompt engineering
data fluency 
agent management
digital judgment 

Rewired for the Future: How AI Reshapes the Org Chart 
Reporting to the CEO are Marketing, Operations, and Sales
In the Marketing stack are AI Prompt Strategist, AI Agent Ops Manager, AI Project Manager
In the Operations stack are AI Prompt Strategist, AI Agent Ops Manager, AI Project Manager
In the Sales stack are AI Prompt Strategist, AI Agent Ops Manager, AI Project Manager

Sources 
AI timeline: Stanford AI 100 2016, The Economist 2024, Fox 43 2025, Petryszak Mudd 2023, Axios 2025
Quantitative Data: FIT CFMM Artificial Intelligence Online National Survey 2025

Team Members
Bari Blitzer, Julia Buonanno-Godec, Marisa Hann, Miranda Huang, Brittany O’Leary, 
Delilah Owens-Schwartz, Vince Stavale, Rina Yashayeva