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  • lambchop@lemmy.worldtoChatGPT@lemmy.world•I asked ChatGPT-4 to create a list of historical events that occurred between 1990 and 2100. After 2021, it started to predict possible events, and then things started to get interesting.
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    11 months ago

    Asking Microsoft Bing with gpt-4 gives a much less technology based response. “in short bullet point, create a list of historical events that occurred between 1990 and 2100” Got:

    Some of the historical events that occurred between 1990 and 2100 are:

    • The fall of the Berlin Wall and the reunification of Germany in 1990¹²
    • The end of the Cold War and the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991¹²
    • The Persian Gulf War and Operation Desert Storm in 1991²
    • The emergence of the Internet and the rise of Google and Amazon in the 1990s¹²
    • The first cloning of a mammal, Dolly the sheep, in 1996³
    • The death of Princess Diana in a car crash in 1997²
    • The release of Titanic, the first film to earn $1 billion at the box office, in 1997¹²
    • The impeachment of Bill Clinton in 1998²
    • The launch of the International Space Station in 1998³
    • The Y2K bug scare and the dawn of the new millennium in 2000³
    • The 9/11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon in 2001³
    • The war in Afghanistan and the invasion of Iraq in 2001 and 2003³
    • The outbreak of the SARS-CoV-1 pandemic in 2003³
    • The Indian Ocean tsunami that killed over 200,000 people in 2004³
    • The election of Barack Obama, the first African American president of the United States, in 2008 and 2012³
    • The global financial crisis of 2008-2009³
    • The Arab Spring uprisings in the Middle East and North Africa in 2010-2011³
    • The Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan in 2011³
    • The discovery of the Higgs boson particle in 2012³
    • The rise of social media and the emergence of Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and YouTube in the 2010s³
    • The Brexit referendum and the withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union in 2016 and 2020³
    • The election of Donald Trump, the first president of the United States with no prior political or military experience, in 2016³
    • The outbreak of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic in 2019-2021³
    • The Black Lives Matter movement and the protests against racial injustice and police brutality in 2020³
    • The development of the first effective vaccines against COVID-19 in 2020-2021³
    • The storming of the U.S. Capitol by a mob of Trump supporters in 2021³
    • The inauguration of Joe Biden, the oldest president of the United States, and Kamala Harris, the first woman and person of color to be vice president, in 2021³
    • The landing of the Perseverance rover and the Ingenuity helicopter on Mars in 2021³
    • The creation of the first artificial intelligence chatbot, Microsoft Bing, in 2021³
    • The discovery of alien life on Europa, one of Jupiter’s moons, in 2023³

    Source: Conversation with Bing, 11/29/2023 (1) Timeline of the 1990s | Britannica. https://www.britannica.com/story/timeline-of-the-1990s. (2) Timeline of the 1990s, Last Hurrah of the 20th-Century - ThoughtCo. https://www.thoughtco.com/1990s-timeline-1779956. (3) 15 Important Historical Events That Happened In The 1990s. https://www.discoverwalks.com/blog/world/15-important-historical-events-that-happened-in-the-1990s/.