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3000 BCE
Stone tools
The creation of stone tools was life changing for humans at the time and the use of these tools was called knapping. These tools, once crafted, were used to scrape meat from bones, ensuring that critical, life-sustaining morsels of food do not go to waste. These tools were one of humanity's earliest technologies. -
Creation of AI
The first discovery of AI was at Dartmouth college at a workshop in 1956. AI then is not what it is now but it was the start to the study of AI technology as we know it. This discovery was led by John McCarthy who is known as one of the founding fathers of AI. -
Facial Action Coding System
The Facial Action Coding System (FACS) is a comprehensive, anatomically based system for describing facial movements. Developed by psychologists Paul Ekman and Wallace V. Friesen in the 1970s, FACS provides a standardized way to analyze and categorize facial expressions by breaking them down into individual muscle movements, known as Action Units (AUs). -
Clippy
Clippy was an animated paperclip that served as an interface assistant in Microsoft office. It was created in the 90s and was one of the most recognizable and controversial features within Microsoft office. Though clippy offered helpful tips and tricks many users thought of it to be slightly pushy and invasive. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kcQzCzSDvc -
Pepper
The Pepper robot is a humanoid robot developed by SoftBank Robotics. This was the first social robot available for purchase. It had many different features such as movement, facial recognition, voice recognition, and emotional intelligence. https://us.softbankrobotics.com/pepper -
Human like AI
AI already has some human like features but I think this will just continue to improve over then next 10-15 years. I think there will be new learning algorithms that AI is able to pick up on human emotions and tendencies. This will likely lead to robots than can hold conversations with humans fluently. -
Flying Cars
I think flying cars are something that is talked about a lot that people think might happen someday. Though I don't think it will happen in our lifetimes I think they will be a normality someday.