1999: Sony AIBO, a robotic pet dog, understands 100 voice commands, learns and matures
2005: Sebastian Thrun’s Stanford team wins DARPA’s 132-mile driverless car race
2011: IBM Watson, a system capable of answering questions, wins quiz show Jeopardy
2012: Google’s self-driving car gets license in Nevada
2014: Man Group starts using machine learning algorithms to manage client money
2016: Alphabet’s DeepMind AlphaGo computer program beats Go champion
2017: AlphaGo Zero learns by playing against itself, beats AlphaGo by 100 games to 0
2017: Facebook switches entirely to neural networks for 4.5 billion translations a day
2017: First AI Powered Equity ETF driven by IBM’s Watson computer starts trading
2017: Two Sigma, a hedge fund that deploys machine learning, crosses $50 billion in assets under management