A Brief History of Artificial Intelligence
Robots of the Ancient World
1308: Ramon Lull's thinking machine
1943: McCulloch & Pitts “A Logical Calculus of the Ideas Immanent in Nervous Activity”
Photo stolen from “On the legacy of W.S. McCulloch”
1943: Colossus
Public domain photo from National Archives (United Kingdom)
1948: Claude Shannon “A Mathematical Theory of Communication”
Photo by Konrad Jacobs CC BY-SA 2.0
The head and in frontal attack on an English writer that the character of this point is therefore another method for the letters that the time of who ever told the problem for an unexpected.
1950: Alan Turing “Computing Machinery and Intelligence”
Photo by Tomipelegrin CC BY-SA 4.0 (questionable claim)
1955: study of AI proposed
Photo by Margaret Minsky, probably copyrighted
1958: John von Neumann “approaching some essential singularity”
Photo by Raul654 CC BY-SA 3.0
Photo copyright Los Alamos National Laboratory
1966: ELIZA chatbot
Public domain image
1978: XCON
Photo by Joe Mabel CC BY-SA 3.0
1988: IBM “A Statistical Approach to Language Translation”
Candide
“Rules” vs “Data”
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Illustration of ones and zeroes by Sandra Henry-Stocker CC BY 2.0
The head and in frontal attack on an English writer that the character of this point is therefore another method for the letters that the time of who ever told the problem for an unexpected.
1990: WorldWideWeb
Public domain screenshot from CERN
1995: A.L.I.C.E. chatbot
Screenshot copyright status unclear
1997: Kasparov vs Deep Blue (IBM)
Public domain graphic by Morn
2002: Roomba introduced (iRobot)
Image by Larry D. Moore CC BY 4.0
Image by iRobot CC BY-SA 4.0
????: Ubiquity
Inspired by GeekFlare https://geekflare.com/daily-life-ai-example/
2011: Jeopardy won by Watson (IBM)
Copyrighted image — fair use
2012: AI recognition of cats (Stanford & Google)
Photo by TechCrunch CC BY 2.0
Photo by The Web Conference CC BY 3.0
2015: Fan Hui vs AlphaGo (Google)
Illustration by Xabi22 CC BY-SA 2.0
2016: AlphaGo Zero learns to play Go without any human input
Illustration by Alzinous CC BY-SA 4.0
2017: Black in AI founded by Rediet Abebe and Timnit Gebru
Photo by Anoushnajarian CC BY-SA 4.0
Photo by TechCrunch CC BY 2.0
2018: GPT-2 (OpenAI)
2022: ChatGPT (OpenAI)
2023: All hell breaks loose
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2024: More hell
Photo by Steve Jurvetson
Show & Tell
Watch an A.I. Learn to Write (N.Y. Times)
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