AI Timeline

A.I. TIMELINE

1955 A.I. BORN Term ´artificial intelligence´ is coined by computer scientist, John McCarthy to describe "the science and engineering of making intelligent machines"

1950 TURING TEST computer scientist Alan Turing proposes a test for machine intelligence. If a machine can trick humans into thinking it is human, then it has intelligence.

1961 UNIMATE First industrial robot, Unimate, goes to work at GM replacing humans on the assembly line

1964 ELIZA Pioneering chatbot developed by Joseph Weizenbaum at MIT holds conversations with humans

1966 SHAKEY The ´first electronic person´ from Stanford, Shakey is a general-purpose mobile robot that reasons about its own actions

A.I. WINTERMany false starts and dead-ends leave A.I. out in the cold

1998KISMET Cynthia Breazeal at MIT introduces KISmet, an emotionally intelligent robot insofar as it detects and responds to people´s feelings

1999AIBO Sony launches first consumer robot pet dog AiBO(AI robot) with skills and personality that develop over time

1997DEEP BLUE Deep Blue, a chess-playing computer from IBM defeats world chess champion Garry Kasparov

2011WATSON IBM´s question answering computer Watson wins first place on popular $1M prize television quiz show Jeopardy

2002ROOMBA First mass produced autonomous robotic vacuum cleaner from iRobt learns to navigate and clean homes

2011SIRI Apple integrates Siri, an intelligent virtual assistant with a voice interface, into the iPhone 4S

2014ALEXA Amazon launches Alexa, an intelligent virtual assistant with a voice interface that completes shopping tasks

2016TAY Microsoft´s chatbot Tay goes rogue on social media making inflammatory and offensive racist comments

2014EUGENE Eugene Goostman, a chatbot passes the Turing Test with a third of judges believing Eugene is human

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