Evolution of AI

1980s-2000s

2000s-Present

1940s- 1950s

1960s-1970s

The Birth of AI

AI Winter and Resurgence

Modern AI Developments

AI's Early Milestones

1960s - 1970s

AI's Early Milestones

1. 1964-1966 - Eliza developed by Joseph Weizenbaum, was one of the first chatbots and was capable of mimicking human conversation by recognizing and processing user inputs.
2. 1972 - WABOT -1, created by researchers at Waseda University in Japan, was one of the earliest full-scale humanoid robots.

1980s - 2000s

AI Winter and Resurgence

1. 1980s - early 1990s - The term "AI Winter" was a period of reduced funding and interest in artificial intelligence research.
2. 1997 - IBM's Deep Blue Defeats Kasparov. Deep Blue, a chess-playing computer, defeated world champion Garry Kasparov.

1940s - 1950s

The Birth of AI

1. 1943 - Warren McCulloch and Walter Pitts developed a computational model for neural networks.
2. 1950 - Alan Turing proposed the Turing Test as a measure of machine intelligence, a foundational concept in the field of AI.
3. 1956 - The Dartmouth Conference was where the term "Artificial Intelligence" was coined, marking the official beginning of AI as a distinct field of study.

2000s - Present

Modern AI Developments

1. 2010s - Major breakthroughs in deep learning, a subset of machine learning involving neural networks with many layers
2. 2011- IBM Watson Wins Jeopardy
3. 2016 - DeepMind's AlphaGo Defeats World Champion
4. 2020s - Rise of ChatGPT and Generative AI