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"Computing Machinery and Intelligence"
Alan Turing was known for his discoveries and work towards artificial intelligence. He proposed the "Turing Test" which was a test that was able to assess how well a machine or computer could mimic human behaviors. His paper "Computing Machinery and Intelligence" paved the way for the far future of AI.
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Unimate
Unimate was the first industrial robot which was a mechanical arm invented by George Devol. The Unimate went to work at GM in the assembly line ,replacing humans.
(https://www.automate.org/robotics/engelberger/joseph-engelberger-unimate) -
Clippit
Clippit was an animated virtual assistant by Microsoft in 1996. Clippit was apart of Microsoft's Office Assistant feature for Microsoft Office. It quickly became the most recognizable feature for Microsoft as it helped users with simple tasks on their computers. After Clippit began to make errors Microsoft discontinued it.
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Galvactivator
The Galvactivator was introduced in 1999 by Jocelyn Scheirer and Rosalind Picard who were researchers at the Affective Computing group at MIT Media Lab. The Galvactivator could sense and communicate skin conductivity which led to many inventions to monitor people's health. An example of this today is smartwatches and other forms such as the Whoop or Oura ring.
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Siri for iPhone
Siri was introduced in 2011 by Apple for the iPhone 4S. Siri is a virtual assistant that helped users perform different tasks on their phones such as create events, call, text, set reminders, and many more. This helped pave the way for humans to directly communicate with AI.
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Higher Level AI Assistants
I think in 50 years AI will make some groundbreaking discoveries and be more capable of what it is today. I think that AI will be more personalized for each person and almost feel like another person helping with tasks and discoveries. This would also tie into some holographic-type technology. What comes to mind when I think of this is this clip from Ironman 2. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ddk9ci6geSs) -
AI in our Brains
I think in the next 100 years we could see AI become apart of us. It could be similar to Elon Musk's development of NeuraLink but instead we would have an AI assistant linked to our brains to help us with more tasks and basically any task we could think of. Not only would this help with tasks but help us understand our brains and emotions better or more clearly.