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publishes the paper "Computing Machinery and Intelligence", introducing the Turing Test, a method to determine whether a machine can think like a human.
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This event is considered the formal birth of AI as an academic field. John McCarthy, Marvin Minsky, Nathaniel Rochester, and Claude Shannon were the main organizers. The term "artificial intelligence" was coined during this conference.
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Programs like the Logic Theorist and General Problem Solver (GPS), developed by Allen Newell and Herbert A. Simon, were created to solve mathematical and logical problems.
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creates ELIZA, a natural language processing program that simulates a conversation with a psychotherapist, one of the first examples of AI in communication.
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Expert systems like MYCIN, a system designed to diagnose infectious diseases, are developed. These systems used production rules and symbols to make decisions.
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Geoffrey Hinton, David Rumelhart, and Ronald Williams develop the backpropagation algorithm, improving the training of neural networks and marking a key advance in machine learning.
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by IBM defeats the world chess champion, Garry Kasparov, marking a milestone in machines' ability to surpass humans in complex tasks.
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The rise of cloud computing and the increase in available data lead to significant advancements in machine learning, speech recognition, and image recognition.
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AlexNet, a deep neural network, wins the ImageNet competition by a large margin, demonstrating the power of deep neural networks for image recognition.
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(Google) defeats the world champion of Go, Lee Sedol, showing AI’s ability to master complex strategy games.
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AI starts to be integrated into areas such as autonomous driving, virtual assistants, healthcare, education, and entertainment, transforming various industries.