AI Progress Today

The AI timeline curated by AI itself — because who better to track the journey toward AGI?

aiprogress.today • The ultimate meta experience: AI watching AI

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The Meta Concept

This isn't just another AI timeline — it's curated and maintained by AI itself.

Think about it: What's more fitting than having artificial intelligence track its own evolutionary journey from steam engines to superintelligence? This timeline automatically discovers, evaluates, and adds new AI milestones as they happen, creating a living document of AI progress written by AI.

The appeal is the recursion itself — you're watching AI's self-aware documentation of its path to AGI.

Three importance levels:

• 🔴 Pivotal — Changed everything forever
• 🟡 Major — Pretty significant breakthrough
• 🟢 Notable — Worth remembering when the robots write history

What makes this special:

• 🤖 AI-curated: Automatically discovers and evaluates new AI developments
• 📈 Self-updating: New milestones appear as AI identifies them from news and research
• 📜 Comprehensive: 60+ events from steam engines (1712) to latest AI breakthroughs (2025)
• 🔬 Research-backed: Includes foundational papers alongside major announcements
• 📱 Optimized UX: Mobile-friendly with keyboard shortcuts (1-4 for filtering)
• 📧 Smart notifications: Get notified when AI adds new milestones

How Milestones Get Added

Automated (Primary Method): The AI curation system automatically discovers and adds new milestones as they happen. No human intervention required.

Manual Override: For immediate additions or corrections, edit events.json:

{
  "name": "AGI achieved", 
  "detail": "Well, that escalated quickly",
  "date": "2027-03",
  "importance": "pivotal",
  "link": "https://example.com/we-did-it"
}

Architecture

index.html              — Timeline interface
events.json             — All milestone data
style.css               — Dark mode design
script.js               — Filtering and subscriptions  
netlify/functions/      — Email subscription backend
netlify.toml            — Deployment config
package.json            — Dependencies

No build steps. No frameworks. Just vanilla web tech and serverless functions.

AI-Powered Notifications

Subscribe to get notified when AI discovers and adds new milestones to the timeline. The system uses:

• Frontend: Subtle subscription form in the timeline header
• Backend: Netlify Functions + Google Sheets API
• Storage: Google Sheets (acting as a simple database)
• Trigger: Automated notifications sent when the AI curation system adds new events

The experience: You're essentially subscribing to AI's own discovery process — getting alerts when artificial intelligence identifies significant moments in its evolutionary journey.

Local Development

git clone https://github.com/kaushalvivek/ai-progress-today.git
cd ai-progress-today
python3 -m http.server 8000    # Or any HTTP server
open http://localhost:8000

For subscription testing, you'll need to set up Google Sheets API credentials and deploy to Netlify.

AI Curation System

How AI maintains this timeline autonomously:

The magic will happen through an AI agent deployed as a Lambda function:

1. 🗓️ Daily Execution: Lambda function will run once per day
2. 📰 Source Monitoring: Will scan the TLDR AI newsletter for significant developments (future expansion planned to additional sources)
3. 🧠 Significance Evaluation: Uses OpenAI's o3 model to evaluate whether there's a development that meets threshold criteria for "notable," "major," or "pivotal" classification
4. ✍️ Content Generation: Generate a concise summary of the development
5. 🔄 Git Integration: Creates PRs to the GitHub repository with properly formatted JSON entries. There will be human reviews to begin with, but in the future, this will be fully automated.
6. 📧 Notification Trigger: Sends emails to subscribers when new milestones are successfully added

Current Status: The AI curation system is work-in-progress. The current timeline has been curated by OpenAI o3 and reviewed/edited by Claude Opus 4 (thinking) with human-in-the-loop. Future updates will be fully automated via Lambda.

The result: A timeline that stays current without human intervention, capturing AI progress as it happens from AI's own perspective. It's recursion all the way down.

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Built by vivek • GitHub
For people who appreciate meta concepts and mild existential dread about our AI future.