June 2020
Intermediate to advanced
304 pages
10h 40m
English
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Appendix
Timeline of artificial intelligence milestones
1937 Claude Shannon proposes that Boolean algebra can be used to model electronic circuits
1943 McCulloch and Pitts recognize that Boolean circuits can be used to model brain signals
1950 Alan Turing develops the Turing Test
1950 Minsky and Edmonds build the first neural network computer (the SNARC)
1956 The term “artificial intelligence” is coined by John McCarthy
1956 Newell and Simon create the Logic Machine
1957 Economist Herbert Simon predicts that computers would defeat humans at chess within the following decade
1958 Frank Rosenblatt introduces a new form of neural network known as “perceptron”
1958 Early genetic algorithms experiments
1959 Arthur Samuels demonstrates that a computer can play checkers better than its creator, and even play against itself to practice
1961 Newell and Simons creates General Problem Solver
1964 Computers understand natural language enough to solve algebraic and word problems
1965 Herbert Dreyfus’ report severely criticises the emerging AI field
1967 Marvin Minsky predicts that within a generation the problem of creating “artificial intelligence” would be solved
1969 Bryson and Ho develop a back propagation algorithm
1971 Terry Winograd’s program SHRDLU answers questions in natural language
1973 UK Lighthill Report ends British government support for AI research
1974 – 1980 First “AI Winter”
1980 Expert Systems, or Knowledge Systems, emerge as a new field within AI
1980s Early part ...
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