AI

By Sabiraa Karim

  • Three Laws of Robotics

    Isaac Asimov formulates the three laws of robotics which include:
    1. Robot may not injure human being
    2. Robot must obey all orders
    3. Robot must protect its own existence unless it leads to the conflict of previous 2 laws

  • First Autonomous Robot Created

    William Grey Walter creates the first robot with complex behaviour

  • Turing Test

    Alan Turing proposes a test for machine intelligence

  • SNARC

    Martin Minsky builds first neurocomputer

  • AI Born

    The "science and engineering of making intelligent machines" is described using the term 'artificial intelligence'

  • Unimate

    First industrial robot goes to work

  • Eliza

    Joseph Weizenbaum creates pioneering chatbot at MIT which can hold conversations with humans

  • Shakey

    General purpose mobile robot created in Stanford, Shakey which can reason about its actions

  • Deep Blue

    Chess playing computer defeats chess champion Garry Kasparov

  • Kismet

    Cynthia Breazeal introduces robot called KISmet which can respond and understand human feelings

  • Aibo

    Sony releases first robot pet dog with skills and personality

  • Watson

    Qustion answering robot called Watson wins quiz show

  • Roomba

    Robotic vacum cleaner called iRobot learns to navigate and clean homes

  • Eugene

    Eugene Gootsman passes Turing Test, with 1/3 of humans believing he is human

  • Alexa

    Amazon releases virtual assistant with voice that helps complete shopping tasks

  • Tay

    Microsoft chatbot makes offensive racist remarks on social media

  • Alphago

    Google A.I. AlphaGo beats world champion Ke Jie, in complex board game titled "Go"

  • Alibaba

    Alibaba language processing AI outscores top humans at a Stanford University reading and comprehension test, scoring 82.44 against 82.304 on a set of 100,000 questions

  • Google Duplex

    Announcement of Google Duplex, a service to allow an AI assistant to book appointments over the phone