At the same time, Google started its efforts towards building a self-driving car, which were officially announced in 2009. This was created by a team of researchers from the University of Alberta, Canada. Two years later the Checkers game was solved by a checkers-playing computer program that cannot lose. ASIMO was used to deliver trays to customers in restaurants. Till 2005, Honda’s ASIMO robot, an artificially intelligent humanoid robot, was the first machine that was able to walk as fast as a human. This milestone signaled the rise of sophisticated robots and their use in various applications. In the same year, the first official RoboCup soccer tournament was organized with the participation of almost 40 teams of interacting robots. The system was called Alacrity and was able to parse and interpret financial models and financial statements based on a collection of over 3,000 rules.Īnother path-breaking moment was in 1997, when the world watched IBM’s Deep Blue chess machine defeat the then world chess champion, Garry Kasparov.

developed the first commercial strategic and managerial advisory system was made in 1987. Beyond medical and gaming applications, Allstar Advice Inc.

This was one of the first expert systems in the medical domain. This chess-playing programme was a forerunner for several other AI applications, including programmes that beat the chess world champion.Īnother important milestone was for AI was in 1979, when INTERNIST a knowledge-based medical diagnosis program was developed that could leverage clinical knowledge to reach its diagnosis. Then years later, in 1968, a programmer called Richard Greenblatt, built an intelligent knowledge-based chess-playing program, which managed to achieve a class-C rating in tournament play. Lisp is considered as one of the languages that is best suited for developing AI applications. In 1958 the Lisp programming language was invented at MIT by John McCarthy. Its evolution is reflected in the improvement of AI technologies such as machine learning and AI programming, but mainly in the evolving intelligence of AI applications. The Past: AI’s Historic milestonesįor nearly six decades AI has been evolving at a steady pace. In following paragraphs we briefly explore the past, the present and the most important: The Future of Artificial Intelligence.

Over the years the acceptance of Artificial Intelligence has grown significantly which has led to a more advanced and better AI technology and a broader range of applications. AI makes machines intelligent and enables them to perform complex tasks such as understanding problems, learning and perceiving situations, planning strategies about confronting problems and ultimately controlling other machines. Artificial Intelligence (AI), since then, has been defined as a pool of technologies that enable machines to perceive their surrounding environments, reason over their context and ultimately act in a way similar to humans. The AI vision was articulated over seventy years ago when Alan Turing proposed the Turing Test as a measure of machine intelligence and Isaac Asimov published his Three Laws of Robotics.

Past and present