History of AI

By jbertilson
  • "Rossum's Universal Robots"

    "Rossum's Universal Robots"

    Karel Kapek's play named “Rossum's Universal Robots” (RUR) opens in London, first use of the word "robot" in English.

  • Foundations for neural networks laid.

  • Robotics term came about

    Isaac Asimov, a Columbia University alumni, coined the term Robotics.

  • Artificial Intelligence term came about

    John McCarthy coined the term Artificial Intelligence. Demonstration of the first running AI program at Carnegie Mellon University.

  • LISP programming language for AI

    John McCarthy invents LISP programming language for AI.

  • MIT disseration

    Danny Bobrow's dissertation at MIT showed that computers can understand natural language well enough to solve algebra word problems correctly.
  • ELIZA invented

    ELIZA invented

    Joseph Weizenbaum at MIT built ELIZA, an interactive problem that carries on a dialogue in English.
  • Shakey, the robot invented

    Shakey, the robot invented

    Scientists at Stanford Research Institute Developed Shakey, a robot, equipped with locomotion, perception, and problem solving.
  • Freddy, the Scottish robot invented

    Freddy, the Scottish robot invented

    The Assembly Robotics group at Edinburgh University built Freddy, the Famous Scottish Robot, capable of using vision to locate and assemble models.
  • First computer-controlled autonomouse vehicle

    First computer-controlled autonomouse vehicle

    The first computer-controlled autonomous vehicle, Stanford Cart, was built.

  • First Self-sufficient Driverless Car Invented

    The first self-sufficient and truly autonomous cars appeared in 1984 with Carnegie Mellon University's Navlab and ALV projects.
  • Aaron, a drawing program invented

    Aaron, a drawing program invented

    Harold Cohen created and demonstrated the drawing program, Aaron.

  • Major advances in all areas of AI take place

    Significant demonstrations in machine learning
    Case-based reasoning
    Multi-agent planning
    Scheduling
    Data mining, Web Crawler
    natural language understanding and translation
    Vision, Virtual Reality
    Games
  • A.L.I.C.E

    A.L.I.C.E

    Inspired by ELIZA, Richard Wallacecreates a similar yet more complex chatbot.
  • Deep Blue Chess Program beat human

    Deep Blue Chess Program beat human

    The Deep Blue Chess Program beats the then world chess champion, Garry Kasparov.
  • Kismet - emotionally equipped robot

    Kismet - emotionally equipped robot

    One of the first robots able to demonstrate social and emotional interactions with humans.

  • Interactive robot pets become commercially available

    Interactive robot pets become commercially available. MIT displays Kismet, a robot with a face that expresses emotions. The robot Nomad explores remote regions of Antarctica and locates meteorites.
  • First robotic vacuum cleaner created

    First robotic vacuum cleaner created

    Launched the Roomba in 2002, which was able to change direction when it encountered an obstacle, detect dirty spots on the floor, and identify steep drops to keep it from falling down stairs. The Roomba proved to be the first commercially successful robot vacuum.
  • Introduction of Siri

    Introduction of Siri

    A voice-assistant powered by Apple.
  • Alexa developed

    Alexa developed

    A virtual-assistant system was developed by Amazon.
  • ChatGPT

    ChatGPT

    A chatbot able to emulate human-like conversation.
  • Dall-E

    Dall-E

    OpenAI introduced an AI system that can generate images from text prompts.