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The Turing Test
Alan Turing offers a test to see if a machine has acquired the ability to reason for itself. The "Turing Test" is created as a result of this. -
George Devol files for Unimate patent
The first programmed robot "arm," the world's first industrial robot, is designed by American engineers George Devol and Joe Engleberger and sold to general motors as the first step to the big robotic arms that help build cars today -
The first incarnation of Siri - ELIZA - was developed
Joseph Weizenbaum develops ELIZA, an artificial intelligence programme at MIT. ELIZA is a computer "psychologist" that manipulates the statements of its users to construct questions making it an early version of siri -
SRI develops Shakey the robot
Shakey, the first mobile robot that can reason about its surroundings, is created by the Stanford Research Institute using tech far ahead of its time -
The idea behind 'backprop' is proposed
the idea of backpropagation is proposed which allows a neural network to alter its layers if the result of its computations isn't the goal it set out to attain. -
First self-driving car goes for a test drive
The Mercedes-Benz van (first self driving car) was equipped with mirrors and sensors and was able to navigate empty streets with ease. -
Deep Blue defeats Garry Kasparov at chess
the robot deep blue was able to defeat the world champion of chess Garry Kasparov using a brilliant display of programming, this truely took the artificial intelligence idea to the next level due to it being able to out play a human let alone the best one at the game -
IBM starts work on Watson
IBM has begun work on Watson, the company's latest Deep Blue edition. In 2008, Watson made news when it beat humans on the game programme Jeopardy!, which needs a deep knowledge of natural language. In 2011, Watson beat former champions Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter. -
Tesla mass produces self driving cars
in 2014 tesla annouced its first addition of self driving cars/ autopilot system in the shell of the model s -
Robot demonstrates self-awareness
In a 'wise-men' logic puzzle in 2015, a robot displayed self-awareness. All three robots were programmed to believe that two of them had been given a "dumbing pill," rendering them silent, in the version of the puzzle utilised with them. When the experimenter questioned which of the robots hadn't taken the dumbing pill, one of them answered out loud, "I don't know."It instantly realises it hadnt taken the pill and changed its answer