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Norbert Wiener created a theory of intelligence existing in animals and machines, which he called Cybernetics
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The theories and ideas around AI are composed by scientists
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Alan Turing invents the Turing test, which works out whether someone can tell a robot speaking from a person
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Issac Asimov publishes the book I, Robot, which follows the story of a world full of robots.
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Essentially the birth of AI - A leading group of computer scientists meet and set themselves a goal: To create a machine of human-like intelligence
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AI had a lot of support behind it at the time, and people were interested in it.
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John McCarthy develops a computer language perfect for programming AI
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Gordon Moore discovers that computers processing speeds double annually
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Backpropagation is a method of strengthening and weakening the synapses in a neural network, which allows for basic, controlled learning. However, it was hard to use, due to the limited processing power of computers
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The first robot, Shakey, is invented
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Due to the lack of computer processing power, progress in developing AI slowed dramatically
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Ray Kurzweil invents a machine for blind people that can read text in English.
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IBM's Deep Blue Supercomputer beats Garry Kasparov, the world chess champion at the time, in a game of chess
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Due to new, powerful computers and global interest, AI takes off again.
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IBM's AI, Watson, wins Jeopardy
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Apple launches their AI assistant, Siri
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Googles AI, Google Brain, teaches itself to recognise cats
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Google's new AI, DeepMind, outperforms humans in recognising CAPTCHA's
