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Turing Test
Alan Turing (computer scientist) proposes a test for machine intelligence. If it can trick a human into believing it is a human, then it has intelligence. -
First AI Programs Were Written
To run the Ferranti Mark1 machine of the University of Manchester- a checkers-playing program written by Christopher Strachey and a chess-playing program written by Dietrich Prinz- the first working AI programs were written. -
A.I. Born
The term ‘artificial intelligence’ is created by John McCarthy to describe ‘the science and engineering of intelligent machines.’ -
Lisp Programming Language Invented
The Lisp programming language is invented by John McCarthy (Massachusets Institute of Technology or MIT). -
GPS is created
Newell, Shaw and Simon created the General Problem Solver (GPS) while at CMU. -
MIT AI Lab is Founded
John McCarthy and Marvin Minsky founded the MIT A.I Lab -
Unimate
Unimate was the very first industrial robot. -
First Symbolic Integration Program
SAINT, the first symbolic integration program, was written by James Slagle (in Lisp). It solved college freshman level calculus problems. -
“Computers and Thought”
The first collection of articles about artificial intelligence, “Computers and Thought”, was published by Edward Feigenbaum and Julian Feldman. -
Eliza
The pioneering chat bot was developed by Joseph Weizenbaum at MIT and is able to converse with humans. -
Shakey
Shakey is a general purpose mobile robot that reasons about its own actions and is the 'first electronic person' from Stanford. -
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A.I. Winter
During this period, many incorrect starts and dead-ends leave A.I. out in the cold. -
Deep Blue
Chess-playing computer, Deep Blue from IBM, defeats world chess champion, Garry Kasparov. -
KISmet
KISmet, an emotionally intelligent robot insofar as it detects and responds to people's feelings, is introduces by Cynthia Breazeal at MIT. -
AIBO
First consumer robot pet dog AiBO (AI robot) with skills and personality that develop over time is launched by Sony -
Roomba
iRobot’s first mass produced autonomous robotic vacuum cleaner learns to navigate and clean homes. -
Siri
Siri, an intelligent virtual assistant with a voice interface, is integrated by Apple into the iPhone 4s. -
Watson
First place on popular television quiz show, Jeopardy, is won by IBM’s question-answering computer, Watson. -
Alexa
Alexa, an intelligent virtual assistant with a voice interface that is able to complete shopping tasks is launched by Amazon. -
Tay
Tay, Microsoft’s chatbot, goes rogue on social media making inflammatory and offensive racist comments. -
AlphaGo
Ke Jei who is world champion in the complex board game of Go, notable for its vast number of possible positions, is beaten by Google’s A.I AlphaGo.