History of AI

First AI

SNARC was made in 1951 by Marvin Lee Minsky. It was made with 40 artifical neurons and could find the exit of a maze, similar to how a rat can.

1951

1967

Making Movement

WABOT-1 was made in 1967 by Ichiro Kato and was a huge step in AI development. It could communicate with a person and measure distances to objects.

Deeper Learning

The Hopfield Net was made in 1982 by Dr. John J. Hopfield. It was a new type of recurrent neural network that allowed for much faster machine learning.

1982

Other notable AIs include:

Logic Theorist, 1956: Used a search tree to do logic and math

Shakey the Robot, 1969: The first robot that could sense things around it and react

BKG, 1979: A backgammon robot that succeeded in defeating the world champion

AARON, 1985: A series of programs capable of creating artistic images

Cog, 1993: MIT’s attempt at making a robotic humanoid child in five years

VaMP and VITA-2, 1994: The earliest self-driving cars, able to drive at up to 80 MPH

Furby, 1998: The first time AI reached a household level of integration

Roomba, 2002: A vacuuming robot that used AI to find the shape of the room

AlphaGo Zero, 2017: Played the board game Go, and could beat the best human players

Midjourney, 2022: The most advanced AI image creator, capable of making amazing art

2000

Facial Replication

Kismet was made in 2000 by Dr. Cynthia Breazeal of MIT. It had sensors that enabled it to recognize human emotions and replicate them using its face.

Complex Functions

Atlas was made in 2013 by Boston Dynamics. It is one of, if not the most advenced AI in terms of physical movement, able to do many things, including parkour.

2013

2022

AI Today

ChatGPT was made in 2022 by OpenAI. It is commonly known due to its ability to generate text of any kind, from answers to game questions to full essays.