History Of AI
- 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
- 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).
Related Links¶
- It turns out the history of AI goes much deeper than I thought
- 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