Evolution Of Artificial Intelligence.
                     EVOLUTION OF 
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Introduction
• In the past few years, AI evolved into a powerful tool that 
enables machines to think and act like humans. 
• Moreover, it has garnered focus from tech companies 
around the world and is considered as the next significant 
technological shift after the evolution in mobile and cloud 
platforms. 
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Artificial Intelligence (AI)
• Artificial intelligence is a branch of computer science 
dealing with the simulation of intelligent behavior in 
computers.
• When a machine can make intelligent decisions, it can be 
referred to as being intelligent- artificially.
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When did the AI surge begin?
• Back in the 1800s, AI was limited in myths, fiction, and 
speculation. The real initiation in AI began in 1956.
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Major design goals of AI
• Teach machines to reason in accordance to perform 
sophisticated mental tasks like playing chess, proving 
mathematical theorems, and others.
• Knowledge representation for machines to interact with 
the real world as humans do machines needed to be able 
to identify objects, people, and languages. Programming 
language Lisp was developed for this very purpose.
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Major design goals of AI cont.
• Teach machines to plan and navigate around the world 
we live in. With this, machines could autonomously move 
around by navigating themselves.
• Enable machines to process natural language so that they 
can understand language, conversations and the context 
of speech.
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EVOLUTION OF AI
1950s: Dartmouth Conference & Modern AI
• British mathematician Alan Turing is considered a pioneer 
in AI. He came up with the idea of building machines that 
could think. 
• The Turing test that he developed in 1950 is still used to 
determine whether a computer is capable of thinking or 
not. 
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 1966: ELIZA is Here
• Eliza, a natural language processing computer, was the 
first chatbot. Developed at MIT’s Artificial Intelligence 
Lab, it is a direct ancestor of the Siri, Alexa and other 
digital assistants. 
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1 997: Deep Blue Beats Human
• IBM’s Deep Blue computer defeating chess champ Garry 
Kasparov was a watershed moment for AI. 
• Deep Blue, which researchers started developing from 
the 1950s, leveraged the increased capacity for raw 
computing power and applied it to chess to beat 
Kasparov. 
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2012: Machines Spot Cats
• Researchers at Stanford and Google tried to accelerate 
the pace of AI development by training machines to 
recognise pictures of different cats. 
• They were able to create a network with about one billion 
connections, calling it a big step towards building an 
“artificial brain”.
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2018: Self-Driving Cars
• The year marked a significant milestone in machines 
doing complex human tasks like driving. Google spinoff 
Waymo runs a self-driving taxi service in Phoenix, 
Arizona. 
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