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1950 - Isaac Asimov
Isaac Asimov was a science fiction writer that inspired AI and came up with a theroy robots from turning on us in the future -
1953 - Alan Turing
In Britain, mathematician Alan Turing and neurologist Grey Walter built the very first robots. The created the Ratio club and worked together to come up with other ideas for robots in the future. -
1956 - Marvin Minsky
Marvin Minsky, pre-programming a computer with the rules that govern human behavior. Others belived that robots be exactly like humans, but Minsky's veiws were better and made more sense. -
1968 - HAL
Marvin Minsky influenced science fiction as well, advising Stanley Kubrick on the film 2001: A Space Odyssey, featuring an intelligent computer, HAL 9000. -
1969 - Shakey
Shakey, the first general-purpose mobile robot able to make decisions about its own actions by reasoning about its surroundings. It built a spatial map of what it saw. But everytime it would move, itd have to updated its map and move again, mekig this painstakingly slow. -
1973 - AI winter
By the early 1970s, AI was in trouble. Millions had been spent, with little to show for it. No one was finding it to be useful in any way. -
1981 - AI Winter Comes To An End
The AI winter came to an end when people started to relize the usefulnss of robots, this insured that the AI market would thrive. -
1990 - Elephants Don't Play Chess
Sooner or later, the book Elephants dont play chess was published, saying that robots should be more like humans, and not just peices of random machinary. -
1997 - Deep Blue Vs Gary Kasparov
In 1997, Deep blue rose it its own kind of fame when it beat world chess cahmpion Gary Karpoaov in rounds of chess, creating a gateway for AI to thrive. -
2002 - Roomba
Rodney Brook's company, iRobot, created a useful little robot named the Roomba, though it was a far cry from what anyone wanted, it had its usefulness cleaning the carpetas of those who could afford it. -
2005 - Big Dog and the Packbots
Later, as AI proved its usefulness, the military found a use for AI, thus created the Packbots and Big Dog, a canine-like robot that delivered supplies to the soilders in need. Packbots as well. -
2008 - Speech Recognition
Google was one of the first to come up with speech recognition. To make AI capable of taking human commands to mind. This was an amazing feat for AI. -
Future - Past what we know
- Automated cars, AI would be so technologically improved it could run a car all on its own.
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Future - We're all gonna be Cyborgs
- Cyborg Technology, later in the future, AI could assist people with surgically removed limbs or otherwise.
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Future - Dangerous jobs
- Taking over dangerous jobs, as pleasing as it sounds, this could actually prove as a danger to humans themselves
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Future - There's more
Others might include:
- Robot friends - may help with depression or loneliness
- Solving climate change
- improved elder care
