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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.
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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.
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The term ‘artificial intelligence’ is created by John McCarthy to describe ‘the science and engineering of intelligent machines.’
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The Lisp programming language is invented by John McCarthy (Massachusets Institute of Technology or MIT).
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Newell, Shaw and Simon created the General Problem Solver (GPS) while at CMU.
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John McCarthy and Marvin Minsky founded the MIT A.I Lab
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Unimate was the very first industrial robot.
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SAINT, the first symbolic integration program, was written by James Slagle (in Lisp). It solved college freshman level calculus problems.
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The first collection of articles about artificial intelligence, “Computers and Thought”, was published by Edward Feigenbaum and Julian Feldman.
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The pioneering chat bot was developed by Joseph Weizenbaum at MIT and is able to converse with humans.
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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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During this period, many incorrect starts and dead-ends leave A.I. out in the cold.
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Chess-playing computer, Deep Blue from IBM, defeats world chess champion, Garry Kasparov.
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KISmet, an emotionally intelligent robot insofar as it detects and responds to people's feelings, is introduces by Cynthia Breazeal at MIT.
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First consumer robot pet dog AiBO (AI robot) with skills and personality that develop over time is launched by Sony
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iRobot’s first mass produced autonomous robotic vacuum cleaner learns to navigate and clean homes.
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Siri, an intelligent virtual assistant with a voice interface, is integrated by Apple into the iPhone 4s.
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First place on popular television quiz show, Jeopardy, is won by IBM’s question-answering computer, Watson.
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Alexa, an intelligent virtual assistant with a voice interface that is able to complete shopping tasks is launched by Amazon.
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Tay, Microsoft’s chatbot, goes rogue on social media making inflammatory and offensive racist comments.
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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.
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