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1956

Dartmouth Conference

The term "Artificial Intelligence" was coined by John McCarthy during the Dartmouth Conference, which is considered the birth of AI as a field. This conference brought together researchers to discuss the potential of creating machines that could simulate human intelligence.

1966

ELIZA Chatbot

Joseph Weizenbaum developed ELIZA, one of the first chatbots, which used pattern matching and substitution methodology to simulate conversation. ELIZA demonstrated the potential of AI in natural language processing.

1979

Stanford Cart

The Stanford Cart, developed at Stanford University, successfully navigated a room filled with chairs without human intervention. This was one of the earliest demonstrations of AI in robotics and autonomous navigation.

1980

Introduction of Expert Systems

The 1980s saw the rise of expert systems, which were AI programs designed to mimic the decision-making abilities of a human expert. Notable systems included MYCIN for medical diagnosis and XCON for computer configuration.

1997

IBM's Deep Blue Defeats Garry Kasparov

IBM's AI system, Deep Blue, made history by defeating world chess champion Garry Kasparov. This event highlighted the advanced problem-solving capabilities of AI.

2000

ASIMO Robot by Honda

Honda introduced ASIMO, a humanoid robot capable of walking, running, and performing tasks. ASIMO showcased advancements in AI for robotics and human-robot interaction.

2011

IBM Watson Wins Jeopardy!

IBM's Watson AI system defeated former champions Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter on the quiz show Jeopardy!, demonstrating AI's capability in understanding and processing natural language.

2012

AlexNet Wins ImageNet Competition

AlexNet, a deep learning model developed by Alex Krizhevsky, Ilya Sutskever, and Geoffrey Hinton, won the ImageNet Large Scale Visual Recognition Challenge. This victory marked a significant breakthrough in AI's image recognition capabilities.

2014

Google's DeepMind Acquired

Google acquired DeepMind Technologies, a leading AI company known for its advancements in deep learning and reinforcement learning. This acquisition signaled the growing importance of AI in technology development.

2015

OpenAI Founded

OpenAI was founded with the mission to ensure that artificial general intelligence (AGI) benefits all of humanity. The organization focuses on research and development in AI safety and ethics.

2016

AlphaGo Defeats Lee Sedol

DeepMind's AlphaGo AI system defeated world champion Go player Lee Sedol. This achievement demonstrated the advanced strategic thinking and learning capabilities of AI.

2018

BERT by Google

Google introduced BERT (Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers), a state-of-the-art natural language processing model that significantly improved the understanding of context in search queries.

2019

GPT-2 Released by OpenAI

OpenAI released GPT-2, a language model capable of generating coherent and contextually relevant text. GPT-2 demonstrated the potential of AI in content creation and natural language understanding.

2020

AlphaFold Solves Protein Folding

DeepMind's AlphaFold AI system achieved a major scientific breakthrough by accurately predicting protein folding, a complex problem in biology. This advancement has significant implications for drug discovery and disease understanding.

2023

ChatGPT-4 Released

OpenAI released ChatGPT-4, an advanced conversational AI model that improved upon its predecessors in terms of coherence, context understanding, and versatility in generating human-like responses.