AI/ML ยท Extra topics

History of AI

From ancient dreams of thinking machines to the people who named the field.

History of AI: chapters

DreamsAutomata, Aristotle, early attempts

Two names, four years apart

AI 1955 John McCarthy ML 1959 Arthur Samuel

Resources

Book cover: AI and I, an intellectual history of artificial intelligence, by Eugene Charniak
Eugene Charniak, AI & I
Book cover: The Quest for Artificial Intelligence by Nils J. Nilsson
Nils J. Nilsson, The Quest for Artificial Intelligence
Book cover: Machines Who Think by Pamela McCorduck
Pamela McCorduck, Machines Who Think

A timeline of AI

AI timeline from 1950 to 2017: Turing test, AI named, Unimate, ELIZA, Shakey, AI winter, Deep Blue, Kismet, AIBO, Roomba, Siri, Watson, Eugene Goostman, Alexa, Tay, AlphaGo
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