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built by mathematician and inventor Blaise Pascal.<\/p>\n"},{"asset":{"media":"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/6\/66\/Two_experimental_models_for_Babbages_Analytical_Engine%2C_c_1870._%289663806882%29.jpg","credit":"Science Museum London \/ Science and Society Picture Library, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons"},"startDate":"1837","endDate":"1837","headline":"Programmable machines","text":"

First design for a programmable machine designed by Charles Babbage and Ada Lovelace.<\/p>\n"},{"asset":{"media":"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/a\/a1\/NeuralNetwork.png","credit":"Loxaxs, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons"},"startDate":"1943","endDate":"1943","headline":"Neural networks","text":"

Foundations of neural networks established by Warren McCulloch and Walter Pitts, drawing parallels between the brain and computing machines.<\/p>\n"},{"asset":{"media":"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/9\/9c\/Alan_Turing_in_watercolour.png","credit":"Midjourney AI, prompted by Netha Hussain, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons"},"startDate":"1950","endDate":"1950","headline":"The Turing Test","text":"

Alan Turing introduces a test - the Turing Test - as a way of testing a machine's intelligence.<\/p>\n"},{"asset":{"media":"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/1\/1c\/Artificial_intelligence_prompt_completion_by_dalle_mini.jpg","credit":"Prompt by JPxG, model by Boris Dayma, upscaler by Xintao Wang, Liangbin Xie et al. Apache License 2.0 or BSD, via Wikimedia Commons"},"startDate":"1955","endDate":"1955","headline":"'Artificial Intelligence'","text":"

Term coined during a conference devoted to the topic.<\/p>\n"},{"asset":{"media":"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/7\/79\/ELIZA_conversation.png","credit":"File:ELIZA conversation.jpg, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons"},"headline":"Natural language program","startDate":"1965","endDate":"1965","text":"

ELIZA, a natural language program is created. ELIZA handles dialogue on any topic; similar in concept to today's chatbots.<\/p>\n"},{"asset":{"media":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/FIWLOl-94nQ?si=3VvWMXFyIdDx3y0i"},"startDate":"1980","endDate":"1989","headline":"Systems emulate human decisions","text":"

Edward Feigenbaum creates expert systems which emulate decisions of human experts<\/p>\n"},{"asset":{"media":"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/4\/46\/Deep_Blue_versus_Kasparov%2C_1996%2C_Game_1.gif","credit":"Morn, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons"},"startDate":"1990","endDate":"1990","headline":"Deep Blue wins","text":"

Computer program Deep Blue beats world chess champion Garry Kasparov.<\/p>\n"},{"asset":{"media":"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/c\/c2\/IRobot_Roomba_785_05_%28fcm%29.jpg","credit":"Frank C. M\u00fcller, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons"},"startDate":"2002","endDate":"2002","headline":"Autonomous vacuums","text":"

iRobot launches Roomba, an autonomous vacuum cleaner that avoids obstacles.<\/p>\n"},{"asset":{"media":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/K07cjCaleTk?si=5v1KmlHRA-1fqgHv"},"startDate":"2009","endDate":"2009","headline":"Driverless cars","text":"

Google builds first self-driving car to handle urban conditions.<\/p>\n"},{"asset":{"media":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/P18EdAKuC1U?si=8VFRYu7PR-xtHZCP"},"headline":"Watson wins Jeopardy!","startDate":"2011","endDate":"2011","text":"

IBM's Watson defeats champions of US game show Jeopardy!<\/p>\n"},{"asset":{"media":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/iTo-lLl7FaM?si=jPFu2P2UbdqfzZow"},"startDate":"2011","endDate":"2014","headline":"Personal Assistants","text":"

Personal assistants like Siri, Google Now, Cortana use speech recognition to answer questions and perform simple tasks.<\/p>\n"},{"asset":{"media":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/TpMIssRdhco?si=bKVdWzo0U1h1YfO0"},"startDate":"2014","endDate":"2014","headline":"Generative Adversarial Networks","text":"

Ian Goodfellow comes up with Generative Adversarial Networks (GAN).<\/p>\n"},{"asset":{"media":"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/e\/e5\/Lee_Sedol_%28B%29_vs_AlphaGo_%28W%29_-_Game_5.jpg","credit":"Wesalius, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons"},"startDate":"2014","endDate":"2014","headline":"AlphaGo wins","text":"

AlphaGo beats professional Go player Lee Sedol 4-1.<\/p>\n"},{"asset":{"media":"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/0\/02\/Neural_network_with_dark_background.png","credit":"DancingPhilosopher, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons"},"startDate":"2018","endDate":"2018","headline":"Language Learning Models","text":"

Language Leanring Models (LLMs) began to be developed.<\/p>\n"},{"asset":{"media":"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/8\/8f\/ChatGPT_Wales_Tiananmen_Square_2022-12-30_181035.png","credit":"Rolf h nelson, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons"},"startDate":"2020","endDate":"2020","headline":"ChatGPT-3 released","text":"

Generative Pre-trained Transformer 3 (GPT-3) released by OpenAI.<\/p>\n"}],"language":"en","headline":"Artificial Intelligence","text":"

...a brief (and selected) history of advancements.<\/div>\n","backgroundImage":{"path":"images\/backgroundImage-650a0b8b48e8b.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","copyright":{"license":"U"},"width":6001,"height":4001}}}

History of Artificial Intelligence

Jay Dell