Dartmouth Conference
The term "Artificial Intelligence" was coined at the Dartmouth Conference, organized by John McCarthy, Marvin Minsky, Nathaniel Rochester, and Claude Shannon. This event is considered the birth of AI as a field of study.
1956
1966
ELIZA Chatbot
Joseph Weizenbaum developed ELIZA, an early natural language processing computer program that could simulate conversation, marking a significant milestone in AI development.
1972
PROLOG Language
The programming language PROLOG, essential for AI research, was developed by Alain Colmerauer and Philippe Roussel, facilitating advancements in computational linguistics and AI applications.
1980
Rise of Expert Systems
Expert systems, which mimic the decision-making abilities of a human expert, gained popularity in the 1980s. They were among the first successful forms of AI software.
1997
Deep Blue Defeats Garry Kasparov
IBM's Deep Blue, a chess-playing computer, defeated world chess champion Garry Kasparov, showcasing the potential of AI in strategic thinking and complex problem-solving.
2000
ASIMO Robot
Honda introduced ASIMO, a humanoid robot capable of walking, running, and navigating complex environments, demonstrating advancements in robotics and AI integration.
2005
DARPA Grand Challenge
Stanley, a robotic car developed by Stanford University, won the DARPA Grand Challenge by autonomously navigating a 132-mile desert course, highlighting AI's potential in autonomous vehicles.
2011
IBM Watson Wins Jeopardy!
IBM's Watson AI system defeated human champions on the quiz show Jeopardy!, demonstrating significant progress in natural language processing and machine learning.
2012
ImageNet Competition Breakthrough
A deep learning model developed by Alex Krizhevsky, Ilya Sutskever, and Geoffrey Hinton won the ImageNet competition, significantly reducing error rates in image recognition tasks.
2014
Amazon Alexa Launch
Amazon launched Alexa, a virtual assistant powered by AI, which could perform tasks, provide information, and control smart home devices through voice commands.
2015
AlphaGo Defeats Professional Go Player
Google DeepMind's AlphaGo defeated professional Go player Lee Sedol, marking a major milestone in AI's ability to handle complex, strategic games.
2016
OpenAI Founded
OpenAI, an AI research lab focused on ensuring that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity, was founded by Elon Musk, Sam Altman, and others.
2017
AlphaGo Zero
Google DeepMind introduced AlphaGo Zero, an AI that surpassed its predecessor by learning Go from scratch without human data, showcasing the power of reinforcement learning.
2018
BERT by Google
Google introduced BERT (Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers), a groundbreaking model for natural language understanding that significantly improved AI's ability to comprehend context in language.
2020
GPT-3 Released by OpenAI
OpenAI released GPT-3, one of the largest and most powerful language models to date, capable of generating human-like text and performing a wide range of language tasks.
2022
DALL-E 2 by OpenAI
OpenAI launched DALL-E 2, an AI model capable of generating highly realistic images from textual descriptions, pushing the boundaries of AI creativity and image synthesis.
2023
ChatGPT-4 Released
OpenAI released ChatGPT-4, an advanced conversational AI model that further improved the capabilities of natural language understanding and human-like interaction.
