1950 — 2026
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Alan Turing proposes the Imitation Game to determine if machines can think.
John McCarthy coins "Artificial Intelligence" at the seminal summer workshop.
Joseph Weizenbaum creates the first chatbot simulating a psychotherapist.
First general-purpose mobile robot capable of reasoning about its actions.
UK report triggers massive cuts in AI funding. The first AI Winter begins.
Rule-based system for diagnosing bacterial infections. Early success in expert systems.
Rumelhart, Hinton & Williams popularize backprop. Neural networks gain traction again.
Yann LeCun develops convolutional networks for handwritten digit recognition.
IBM's Deep Blue defeats world chess champion Garry Kasparov in a six-game match.
Sony releases AIBO, the first consumer entertainment robot dog.
Geoffrey Hinton revives deep learning with efficient training of deep neural nets.
Fei-Fei Li launches ImageNet, fueling the deep learning revolution in computer vision.
Alex Krizhevsky's CNN dramatically outperforms rivals, igniting the modern deep learning era.
DeepMind's AlphaGo beats one of the world's best Go players in a historic 4-1 series.
OpenAI releases ChatGPT, bringing powerful generative AI to hundreds of millions worldwide.
GPT-4, multimodal models, reasoning engines, and autonomous AI agents reshape every industry.