1961: Samuel’s Checkers programme used Machine Learning to beat human players
1966: IBM’s Shoebox performed arithmetic by voice command
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Shakey became the first mobile robot ‘aware’ of its surroundings
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ELIZA, an artificial conversational ‘therapist’ created at MIT’s AI laboratory
1978: Creation of programmes such as R1/XCON to help sales representatives avoid errors in product suggestions
1980-1987: The Boom Period
1987-1994: Second Winter
1994-Present: Modern Age
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Two robotic cars drove long distance on the highway
1997: Deep Blue, a chess playing computer developed by IBM defeated world champion Garry Kasparov
2000: Kismet, a sociable machine capable of expressing emotions, launched
2004: Honda Asimo, a personal robot, was released
2011: IBM’s Watson beats two of the most successful human contestants on Jeopardy!, a long-running US game show
2016: Introduction of virtual agents with Siri, Google Now and IPSoft’s Amelia
2017: Google’s AutoML lets
AI generate AI
2018: Google spin-off Waymo launched self-driving cars in Arizona
(Source: Accenture; other reports)