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History of Artificial Intelligence

By timetoaster167

  • Norbert Wiener devised the idea of Cybernetics

    Norbert Wiener devised the idea of Cybernetics
    Norbert Wiener created a theory of intelligence existing in animals and machines, which he called Cybernetics
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    Birth of AI

    The theories and ideas around AI are composed by scientists

  • The Turing Test

    The Turing Test
    Alan Turing invents the Turing test, which works out whether someone can tell a robot speaking from a person

  • I, Robot

    I, Robot
    Issac Asimov publishes the book I, Robot, which follows the story of a world full of robots.

  • Dartmouth Conference

    Dartmouth Conference
    Essentially the birth of AI - A leading group of computer scientists meet and set themselves a goal: To create a machine of human-like intelligence
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    The Golden Age of AI

    AI had a lot of support behind it at the time, and people were interested in it.

  • LISP

    LISP
    John McCarthy develops a computer language perfect for programming AI

  • MIT AI Lab founded

    MIT AI Lab founded

  • Stanford AI Lab founded

    Stanford AI Lab founded

  • Moore's Law

    Moore's Law
    Gordon Moore discovers that computers processing speeds double annually

  • Backpropagation invented

    Backpropagation invented
    Backpropagation is a method of strengthening and weakening the synapses in a neural network, which allows for basic, controlled learning. However, it was hard to use, due to the limited processing power of computers

  • The first "Electronic Person"

    The first "Electronic Person"
    The first robot, Shakey, is invented
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    The Dark Age of AI

    Due to the lack of computer processing power, progress in developing AI slowed dramatically

  • Text to Voice Machine

    Text to Voice Machine
    Ray Kurzweil invents a machine for blind people that can read text in English.

  • Deep Blue beets Chess Champion

    Deep Blue beets Chess Champion
    IBM's Deep Blue Supercomputer beats Garry Kasparov, the world chess champion at the time, in a game of chess
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    AI is reborn

    Due to new, powerful computers and global interest, AI takes off again.

  • Watson wins Jeopardy

    Watson wins Jeopardy
    IBM's AI, Watson, wins Jeopardy

  • Siri

    Siri
    Apple launches their AI assistant, Siri

  • Google Brain recognises cats

    Google Brain recognises cats
    Googles AI, Google Brain, teaches itself to recognise cats

  • Google beats humans in recognising CAPTCHA

    Google beats humans in recognising CAPTCHA
    Google's new AI, DeepMind, outperforms humans in recognising CAPTCHA's