The History of AI

1950 Alan Turing publishes "Computing Machinery and Intelligence" 1952

1956 Artificial Intelligence used by John McCarthy in a conference 1957 First programming language for numeric and scientific computing (FORTRAN) 1958 First AI programming language (LISP) 1959

1959 John McCarthy and Marvin Minsky founded the MIT Artificial Intelligence Project 1961 First industrial Robot (Unimate) on the assembly line at

1965 ELIZA by Joseph Weizenbaum was the first program that could communicate on any topic 1972 First logic programming language (PROLOG) 1991 U.S. forces uses DART (automated logistics planning and scheduling) in the Gulf war 1997 Deep Blue (IBM) beats the world champion in chess 2002 The first robot cleaner (Roomba) 2005

2008 Breakthrough in speech recognition (Google) 2011 A neural network wins over humans in traffic sign recognition (99.46% vs 99.22%) 2011

2011 Watson (IBM) wins Jeopardy! 2014

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2015 Google AlphaGo defeated various human champions in the board game Go 2016

One of the greatest innovators in the field of machine learning was John McCarthy, widely recognized as the "Father of Artificial Intelligence". In the mid 1950s, McCarthy coined the term "Artificial Intelligence" and defined it as " the science of making intelligent machines ". The algorithms has been here since then. Why is AI more interesting now?

Another strong force is the major investments from big companies (Google, Microsoft, Facebook, YouTube) because their datasets became much too big to handle traditionally.

Studying AI raises many interesting questions: "Can computers think like humans?" "Can computers be smarter than humans?" "Can computers take over the world?" Machines can understand verbal commands, recognize faces, drive cars, and play games better than us. How long will it take before they walk among us?