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TIMELINE 1986-2020
PART-2
1986
Mercedes-Benz van is the first driverless car that drives up to 55 mph clear roads. It was built under the supervision of Ernst Dickmanns at Bundeswehr University.
Source: https://www.forbes.com/sites/gilpress/2016/12/30/a-very-short-history-of-artificialintelligence-ai/?sh=454ecb476fba
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_self-driving_cars#:~:text=to%20mid%201970s.-,1980s,h)%20on%20streets%20without%20traffic
1987
In the keynote speech of John Sculley, Apple CEO at Educom, a video named Knowledge Navigator shows the future in which smart agents would access the knowledge applications that connect massive digital information.
Source: https://www.forbes.com/sites/gilpress/2016/12/30/a-very-short-history-of-artificialintelligence-ai/?sh=454ecb476fba
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Sculley
1988
Probabilistic Reasoning in Intelligent Systems was published by Judea Pearl. This work transformed the field of Artificial Intelligence and many other branches of natural sciences and engineering.
Source: https://www.forbes.com/sites/gilpress/2016/12/30/a-very-short-history-of-artificialintelligence-ai/?sh=454ecb476fba
https://books.google.com.pk/books/about/Probabilistic_Reasoning_in_Intelligent_S.html?id=AvNID7LyMusC&printsec=frontcover&source=kp_read_button&hl=en&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false
1988
Jabberwacky, a live chatbot is developed by Rollo Carpenter that simulates the natural human chat in a very entertaining, interesting, and humorous manner.
Source: https://www.forbes.com/sites/gilpress/2016/12/30/a-very-short-history-of-artificialintelligence-ai/?sh=454ecb476fba
http://loebner03.hamill.co.uk/images/photos/
vladimirrolloandfred.jpg
1989
Yann LeCun with some other researchers at AT&T Bell Labs innovated a multi-layer neural network with a backpropagation algorithm and recognized the handwritten ZIP codes successfully.
Source: https://www.forbes.com/sites/gilpress/2016/12/30/a-very-short-history-of-artificialintelligence-ai/?sh=454ecb476fba
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yann_LeCun
1993
In “The Coming Technological Singularity” published by Vernor Vinge, it is said that the technology will revolutionize within thirty years that it will create superhuman intelligence.
Source: https://www.forbes.com/sites/
gilpress/2016/12/30/a-very-short-history-of-artificial-intelligence-ai/?sh=454ecb476fba
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vernor_Vinge
1997
Jurgen Schmidhuber and Sepp Hochreiter proposed Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) which is a recurrent neural network used in speech recognition and handwriting analysis.
Source: https://www.forbes.com/sites/
gilpress/2016/12/30/a-very-short-history-of-artificial-intelligence-ai/?sh=454ecb476fba
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_short-term_memory
1997
Deep Blue is the first chess-playing program that beats the top world chess champion.
Source: https://www.forbes.com/sites/
gilpress/2016/12/30/a-very-short-history-of-artificial-intelligence-ai/?sh=454ecb476fba
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Blue_(chess_computer)
1998
Caleb Chung and Dave Hampton created the first pet robot, Furby.
Source: https://www.forbes.com/sites/
gilpress/2016/12/30/a-very-short-history-of-artificial-intelligence-ai/?sh=454ecb476fba
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Furby
1998
Yann LeCun and other researchers published papers on the applications of neural networks in backpropagation optimization and handwriting recognition.
Source: https://www.forbes.com/sites/
gilpress/2016/12/30/a-very-short-history-of-artificial-intelligence-ai/?sh=454ecb476fba
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoshua_Bengio
2000
Cynthia Breazeal at MIT developed a robot named Kismet that simulates and recognizes emotions.
Source: https://www.forbes.com/sites/
gilpress/2016/12/30/a-very-short-history-of-artificial-intelligence-ai/?sh=454ecb476fba
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kismet_(robot)
2000
ASIMO AI robot of Honda is developed that can walk at the speed of humans and carries trays to the customers in a restaurant.
Source: https://www.forbes.com/sites/
gilpress/2016/12/30/a-very-short-history-of-artificial-intelligence-ai/?sh=454ecb476fba
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?search=-Honda%E2%80%99s+ASIMO+AI+robot+&tit-le=Special%3ASearch&go=Go&ns0=1
2001
Steven Spielberg’s film, A.I. Artificial Intelligence was released that exhibits a childlike android that has the ability to love.
Source: https://www.forbes.com/sites/
gilpress/2016/12/30/a-very-short-history-of-artificial-intelligence-ai/?sh=454ecb476fba
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A.I._Artificial_Intelligence
2006
Michele Banko, Michael Cafarella, and Oren Etzioni coined a term, “machine reading” that defines it as an unsupervised and autonomous understanding of the text.
Source: https://www.forbes.com/sites/
gilpress/2016/12/30/a-very-short-history-of-artificial-intelligence-ai/?sh=454ecb476fba
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oren_Etzioni
2009
Google started working on a driverless car that later 2014 became the first one to pass the self-driving test of U.S. state.
Source: https://www.forbes.com/sites/
gilpress/2016/12/30/a-very-short-history-of-artificial-intelligence-ai/?sh=454ecb476fba
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waymo
2009
Stats Monkey was developed by the Intelligent Information Laboratory of Northwestern University. It writes sport news without human intervention.
Source: wbur.org
https://www.wbur.org/npr/122424166/story.php
2010
Kinect was launched by Microsoft for Xbox 360. It is a gaming device that tracks the movement of the human body.
Source: https://www.forbes.com/sites/
gilpress/2016/12/30/a-very-short-history-of-artificial-intelligence-ai/?sh=454ecb476fba
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinect
2011
A natural language question-answering computer was developed named Watson that defeated two former champions.
2011
Apple Siri, a smartphone app was released that uses Natural Language Processing (NLP) to give recommendations and perform actions.
Source: https://www.forbes.com/sites/
gilpress/2016/12/30/a-very-short-history-of-artificial-intelligence-ai/?sh=454ecb476fba
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siri
2013
Robot HRP-2 by SCHAFT defeated 15 teams and won the DARPA Robotics Challenge Trials.
Source: https://www.forbes.com/sites/
gilpress/2016/12/30/a-very-short-history-of-artificial-intelligence-ai/?sh=454ecb476fba
https://achievements.ai/timeline/hrp-2-ro-bot-won-darpas-robotics-challenge/
2013
Never Ending Image Learner (NEIL) was released at Carnegie Mellon University that analyzes correlations between images.
Source: https://www.forbes.com/sites/
gilpress/2016/12/30/a-very-short-history-of-artificial-intelligence-ai/?sh=454ecb476fba
https://computervisiononline.com/blog/never-en-ding-image-learner
2013
SparkCognition, the world’s first infrastructure-focused AI company, is incorporated in Austin, Texas
Source: sparkcognition.com
https://www.sparkcognition.com/about/company/
2016
Google DeepMind’s AlphaGo program defeated South Korean Go grandmaster Lee Sedol.
Source: https://www.forbes.com/sites/
gilpress/2016/12/30/a-very-short-history-of-artificial-intelligence-ai/?sh=454ecb476fba
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AlphaGo_versus_Lee_Sedol
2017
The Sentient Machine by Amir Husain, a book that elaborates the future of AI is published.
2017
Deepstack, an AI-based algorithm beat human players at heads-up no-limit hold’em poker.
Source: https://www.forbes.com/sites/
gilpress/2016/12/30/a-very-short-history-of-artificial-intelligence-ai/?sh=454ecb476fba
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1701.01724.pdf
2017
An OpenAI-machine-learned bot won a can1v1 demo game at The International 2017 Dota 2 tournament against professional Dota 2 player Dendi.
Source: https://www.forbes.com/sites/
gilpress/2016/12/30/a-very-short-history-of-artificial-intelligence-ai/?sh=454ecb476fba
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dendi_(gamer)
2018
Google Duplex was launched, a service where AI assistant books appointments over the phone in a flawless human voice.
Source: https://www.forbes.com/sites/
gilpress/2016/12/30/a-very-short-history-of-artificial-intelligence-ai/?sh=454ecb476fba
https://ai.googleblog.com/
2020
GPT-3, an autoregressive language model was released by OpenAI. It uses deep learning to produce human-like text in multiple languages.
Source: https://www.forbes.com/sites/
gilpress/2016/12/30/a-very-short-history-of-artificial-intelligence-ai/?sh=454ecb476fba
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPT-3
