Artificial Intelligence Gets Real: A Timeline
AI’s recent feats – beating a Go champion, navigating driverless cars, making money for investors – were many decades in the making.
1950: Alan Turing developed the Turing Test for recognizing machine intelligence
1956: John McCarthy coins “artificial intelligence” at Dartmouth College conference
1957: Invention of Perceptron, an algorithm that could be trained to classify images
1964: Computers understand natural language enough to solve algebra word problems
1968: Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey features intelligent computer HAL 9000
1979: The Stanford Cart, an autonomous vehicle, navigates across a room full of obstacles
1982: James Simons starts quant investment firm Renaissance Technologies
1988: David Shaw founds D.E. Shaw, an early AI adopter among hedge funds
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