Historical Background to AI

By Temka

  • Turin Test

    Turin suggests that machines might some day posses intelligence; he proposes the first test for possible machine intelligence (now called the Turing Test)

  • ELIZA

    Dr Weizenbaum of MIT designs ELIZA

  • Dendral - The first expert system

    Work on DENDRAL, the first expert system.

  • ELIZA vs PARRY

    ELIZA and PARRY the two programms were hooked up to each other and they were to chat with each other.

  • PROLOG

    The AI language PROLOG (programmed logic) developed

  • ALICE

    ALICE, an open source NL AI chat robot, wins the Loebner Prize for the Turing test.