CY8ERPUNKS

Timeline

Era 7 · 2016–2026

AI

  1. 2018

    GPT-1; the transformer era begins (2017 paper)

    GPT-1; the transformer era begins (2017 paper)

  2. 2019

    Zuboff's Surveillance Capitalism published

    Zuboff's Surveillance Capitalism published

  3. 2020

    GPT-3; Cyberpunk 2077 (CD Projekt Red)

    The game is the emblem of the retro re-hash: enormous, beautiful, and almost entirely a 1980s mood board. (Its redemption arc via Edgerunners and the 2.0 overhaul is also worth noting as craft.)

  4. 2022

    Stable Diffusion

    (Nov 30, 2022). The moment "AI" stops being a niche concern.

  5. c. 2023

    The frontier-lab era, agentic systems, open-weight models, the concentration-versus-diffusion fight

    This is CY8ERPUNKS' present tense and the actual subject of the magazine.