How did it all begun?
The concept of Artificial Intelligence has become so prevalent in recent years that science, science fiction, and practical life have all begun to merge. Many believe that the future of technological innovation will be based on work done by machine learning programmers – who create algorithms that enable an intelligent machine to act like the human brain. The idea of an artificial brain dates back to the early 20th century, when scientists from various fields, such as: mathematics, physics, engineering, economics and politics began to discuss the creation of an artificial mechanism that would assist or perform work which is performed by humans.
Among many individuals who left a mark on this field, huge credits go to Alan Turing, who in 1950 introduced a new era by writing a study on various mathematical formulas that can be modelled and realized using artificial intelligence. During his analysis, Turing stated that since humans use available information as a reason to solve problems and in decision-making, the machines could do the same. This point was the logical framework for his paper published in 1950 – Computing Machinery and Intelligence, in which he discussed ways to build intelligent machines and test their intelligence.
The concept of Artificial Intelligence has become so prevalent in recent years that science, science fiction, and practical life have all begun to merge. Many believe that the future of technological innovation will be based on work done by machine learning programmers – who create algorithms that enable an intelligent machine to act like the human brain. The idea of an artificial brain dates back to the early 20th century, when scientists from various fields, such as: mathematics, physics, engineering, economics and politics began to discuss the creation of an artificial mechanism that would assist or perform work which is performed by humans.
Among many individuals who left a mark on this field, huge credits go to Alan Turing, who in 1950 introduced a new era by writing a study on various mathematical formulas that can be modelled and realized using artificial intelligence. During his analysis, Turing stated that since humans use available information as a reason to solve problems and in decision-making, the machines could do the same. This point was the logical framework for his paper published in 1950 – Computing Machinery and Intelligence, in which he discussed ways to build intelligent machines and test their intelligence.
SOME CHRONOLOGICAL EVENTS IN THE AI WORLD
1960
- (1950) In this year, Alan Turing publishes “Computing Machinery and Intelligence” where he introduces and proposes what today is known as the Turing Test – a method which identifies whether a machine is intelligent.
- (1952) Arthur Samuel evolves a program which is a self-learning checkers program.
1970
- (1972) The PROLOG – a logic programming language was created.
1980s
- (1980) In Stanford, the American Association for Artification Intelligence (AAAI) was gathered for the first National Conference.
- (1986) The first robot cars able to drive up to 55 mph on empty streets, were first built and introduced by a team lead by Ernst Dickmanss at the Bundeswehr University of Munich.
1990s
- (1991) The 30 years of research in AI were paid back by the DART scheduling application deployed in the first Gulf War.
- (1995) A semi-autonomous car drove all around America with computer-controlled steering for 2,797 miles (4,501 km) of the 2,849 miles (4,585 km). This project was called “No Hands Across America”. The throttle and brakes were controlled by a human driver.
2000s
- (2005) The self-driving car STANLEY wins the DARPA Grand Challenge.
- (2005) Investments from the U.S. military in robots are first noted. The first robots were Boston Dynamics’ “Big Dog” and iRobot’s “PackBot”.
- (2009) Google builds its first autonomous car.
2010-2021s
- (2011) Siri, an AI-powered virtual assistant was introduced through Apple’s IOS operating system.
- (2014) Alexa – a virtual home is released by Amazon.
(2017) The International 2017 Dota 2 tournament was held in August, where an OpenAI-machined bot played and won against professional Dota 2 player, Dendi. - (2020) Turing Natural Language Generation (T-NLG) was introduced by Microsoft in February. It was then the “largest language model published at 17 billion parameters.”