Artificial Intelligence

By caseybishop

  • Runaround Written by Isaac Asimov

    Runaround Written by Isaac Asimov
    The roots of AI can be traced back to a story titled Runaround, written by Isaac Asimov, which was about a robot created by Gregory Powell and Mike Donavan. (Haenlein et al. 2)

  • Alan Turing writes “Computing Machinery and Intelligence"

    Alan Turing writes “Computing Machinery and Intelligence"
    In this book, Alan Turing describes how to test machines and their intelligence. This test is known as the Turing Test and is still used to this day. (Shao et al. 2)

  • The concept of AI was officially proposed by John McCarthy at an AI seminar in Dartmouth

    The concept of AI was officially proposed by John McCarthy at an AI seminar in Dartmouth
    At the eight-week-long Dartmouth Summer Research
    Project on Artificial Intelligence John McCarthy and participating members officially proposed the idea of AI marking the birth of AI. (Shao et al. 2)

  • ELIZA Created

    ELIZA Created
    ELIZA, a natural language processing tool able to simulate a conversation with a human, was created between 1964 and 1966 and was one of the first programs capable of passing the Turing Test. (Adamopoulou et al 2)

  • The AI Winters

    The AI Winters
    The AI Winters were periods of time where funding came to a halt and new AI was not being produced. (Martinez et al. 15)

  • ALICE the first online chatbot

    ALICE the first online chatbot
    Inspired by ELIZA, ALICE was created in 1995 and was "based on pattern-matching, without any actual perception of the whole conversation". (Adamopoulou et al. 2)

  • Deep Blue beats Garry Kasparov

    Deep Blue beats Garry Kasparov
    Deep Blue, a chess playing expert system from IBM, beats world chess champion, Garry Kasparov thus taking the AI world out of the second AI Winter. (Martinez et. al 16)

  • Kismet

    Kismet
    Cynthia Breazeal developed Kismet at MIT in 1998. Kismet is the first robot designed to explicitly engage people in natural and expressive face-to-face interaction. (Brunder 7)

  • DARPA Grand Challenge

    DARPA Grand Challenge
    "The DARPA Grand Challenge demonstrated the ability of autonomous cars to navigate in an urban environment. In classical DARPA fashion, this successful grand challenge
    demonstration spun off a whole industry and the interest in driverless cars that we are experiencing today." (Martinez et. al 17).

  • Siri

    Siri
    Apple developed SIRI, a virtual assistant, and launched it with the IPhone 4S. (Hoy 82)

  • WATSON

    WATSON
    WATSON, a question answering computer made by IBM wins first place on Jeopardy. WATSON used a massive database to search for the answers in real time. (Martinez et al 17)

  • Microsoft Cortona

    Microsoft Cortona
    Microsoft's virtual assistant Cortana was released in 2013 shortly after Apple announced SIRI. (Hoy 82)

  • Alexa

    Alexa
    Alexa, a virtual assistant created by Amazon was launched following Apples SIRI and Microsoft's Cortana. (Hoy 82)

  • TAY

    TAY
    Tay, an AI chatbot released by Microsoft as a Twitter bot caused a controversy when it started going rogue, posting many derogatory and racist comments. (Adamopoulou et al 13)

  • ALPHAGO

    ALPHAGO
    ALPHAGo, an AI program created by Google beat 18-time champion Lee Se-dol in a tournament, winning 4 of 5 games. (Martinez et. al 17)