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History Of AI

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  • The term AI was first conceived by John McCarthy at a Dartmouth College conference in 1956
  • Timeline of AI:
  • 250 BC
    • Ctesibus a Greek inventor and mathematician created the world's first automatic self-regulatory system, called clepsydra or "water thieve"
    • It was designed to ensure that the container used in water clocks remained full clepsydra.JPG
  • early 1700s
    • Jonathan Swift wrote a novel called "Gulliver's Travels"
    • This novel outlines a nonhuman mind which assists not knowledgeable people to seem skilled
  • 1900-1950
    • First film portrayal of a robot in Metropolis
    • Programmable digital computer developed
  • 1950s
    • chess-playing computer program
    • Alan Turing publishing his paper on "Computing Machinery and Intelligence"
      • This outlines The Turing Test
  • 1960s
    • Eliza, an NLP program was developed by MIT prof Joseph Weizenbaum, it engages in conversation
  • 1990s
    • chess AI beats world champion
    • Kismet robot, created by MIT Prof Cynthia Breazeal detects and simulates facial emotion
  • 2010s
    • IBM Watson AI beats Jeopardy Champions
    • Siri was released in 2011, a voice controlled personal assistant
  • 2010s
    • Alexa released by Amazon, which creates a smart home environment
    • BERT Ai released by google, which turns AI to the general public, allowing them to train state-of-the-art question answering system
  • 2020s
    • Open AI GPT-3 was created that generates text, this AI has huge capabilities which are only slightly covered by ChatGPT

Citational Information

History of Artificial Intelligence (Mar 07, 2021). Available at: https://www.analyticssteps.com/blogs/history-artificial-intelligence-ai (Accessed: 23 February 2023).


  • It turns out the history of AI goes much deeper than I thought model1.JPG
  • The above shows the relationship as outlined in class, in this article I outlined the past.
  • The past can be recent or go back far, like 250 BC. I understand the importance of seeing the deep history, but that shouldn't dismiss my work studying the more recent history