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Alan Turing
The Turing test: a method of determining whether or not a machine is able to think like a human being invented by Alan Turing -
John McCarthy
Artificial intelligence: this term is created by John McCarthy to describe “the science and engineering of making intelligent machines” -
George Devol
Unimate: first industrial robot ever built. It was a hydraulic manipulator arm that could perform repetitive tasks. -
Joseph Weizenbaum
ELIZA: first chatbot therapist developed by Joseph Weizenbaum that holds conversations with humans. -
SRI International
Shakey: first mobile robot to be able to reason about its own actions -
IBM
Deep Blue: a chess-playing computer from IBM that defeats Garry Kasparov, world chess champion -
Sony
AIBO: first robot pet dog launched by Sony with skills and personality that develop over time -
IRobot
ROOMBA: first autonomous robotic vacuum cleaner from iRobot that is able to clean homes -
Apple
SIRI: an intelligent virtual assistant with a voice interface integrated into the iPhone 4S by Apple -
Vladimir Veselov, Eugene Demchenko and Sergey Ulasen
Eugene Goostman: a chatbot that passed the Turing Test with a third of judges believing Eugene is human -
Amazon
ALEXA: an intelligent virtual assistant with a voice interface that can complete shopping tasks, launched by Amazon -
DeepMind Technologies
ALPHAGO: computer program that plays the complex board game Go and that beats world champion Ke Jie in a game of Go