Artificial intelligence timeline
     
1927: Fritz Lang’s science fiction film Metropolis features first robot depicted on film

1950: Alan Turing publishes Computing Machinery and Intelligence, which sets Turing Test – can machine demonstrate intelligence?

1955: Term artificial intelligence coined by U.S. computer scientist John McCarthy (right)

1959: General Motors installs prototype industrial robot – Unimate #001 on assembly line

1965: Eliza natural language processing computer programme explores communication between humans and machines

1973: World’s first humanoid robot unveiled at Japan’s Waseda University. Wabot-1 can walk, speak and grasp objects

1980: Wabot-2 is able to read musical scores and play keyboard

1981: Jabberwacky created by UK programmer Rollo Carpenter. Chatbot carries out conversations with users in bid to pass Turing Test

1987: Mercedes-Benz and Ernst Dickmanns at Munich’s Bundeswehr University develop
first driverless car

1989: World Wide Web invented by British computer scientist Sir Tim Berners-Lee (right)

1996: Stanford University students Sergey Brin and Larry Page (right) begin working on BackRub search engine

1997: IBM’s Deep Blue supercomputer beats reigning world chess champion Garry Kasparov (below)

2004: Honda’s humanoid, Asimo, is first robot to demonstrate true human-like mobility

2011: IBM’s Watson question-answering supercomputer wins $1 million on TV quiz show Jeopardy!
     
Nov 2023: World leaders sign Bletchley Declaration to address dangers of artificial intelligence


Sources : Forbes, Maryville University, Reuters, Waseda University
Pictures: Getty Images, Honda, Stanford News Service 
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