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Artificial Intelligence is not new in our society. It has been around for almost 75 years and is embedded in our daily lives.

It’s just that a little over a year ago it became accessible to individuals in the form of AI text and art generators (or creators). That’s when I began to explore it and talk about AI.

It became a buzz word in my circle of friends after CBS’s 60 Minutes program last summer. Currently, it’s almost an everyday discussion point, at least in our home it is.

We had a back-and-forth discussion last week on Lunch & Learn at Senior Planet from AARP. The subject was the merits of senior adults 50+ using artificial intelligence versus the short-comings and deficiencies.

My feeling is – you can love it, or leave it be, but generative AI is here. We can use it as a constructive tool or as a destructive sledgehammer. I prefer the former.

Judy and I will be doing a presentation on Tuesday, January 23, 2024 at 1:00 PM, Eastern. The topic is “Beyond ChatGPT – Explore The Expanse Of Artificial Intelligence Resources.”

Milestones In Artificial Intelligence

I gathered a list of the following milestones to prove that artificial intelligence has been with us for a while.

• 1950 – Alan Turing introduces the Turing test for machine intelligence.
• 1955 – John McCarthy coined the term “artificial intelligence”.
• 1956 – The Dartmouth Conference research conference on artificial intelligence. Research focuses on games like chess and checkers.
• 1965/6 – Joseph Weizenbaum develops ELIZA, an early natural language processing system that could carry out conversations.
• 1958 – Perceptron, the first artificial neural network, was developed.
• 1966 – Stanford Research Institute’s (SRI) Artificial Intelligence Center started developing the first mobile intelligent robot.
• 1997 – IBM’s Deep Blue defeats world chess champion Garry Kasparov.
• 2005 – Stanford AI Lab develops Stanley, the first successful autonomous vehicle.
• 2011 – IBM’s Watson defeats human champions in Jeopardy! thus demonstrating the ability to understand natural language as well as answer complex questions.
• 2012 – Google’s deep learning neural network, Google Brain, is able to recognize cats in YouTube videos thus demonstrating the potential of deep learning.
• 2016 – AlphaGo, by DeepMind, defeats world champion Lee Sedol at the complex board game Go.
• 2017 – Carnegie Mellon University’s Libratus easily beat four top poker players in a 20-day long no-limit Texas hold’em competition.
• 2019 – Carnegie Mellon University’s Pluribus defeated human experts in a six-player no-limit Texas Hold’em poker match.
• 2019 – OpenAI releases GPT-2, an advanced text generation model.
• 2020 – Waymo One, a self driving taxi service, is launched in the Phoenix area by Waymo
• 2022 – Models such as DALL-E 2, Stable Diffusion and ChatGPT were publicly launched by research labs like Anthropic, Stability AI and OpenAI. These models can generate realistic new artwork and engage in human like conversations.
• 2023 – In answer to the launch of ChatGPT text generator, Microsoft launches Bing and Google launches Bard. *

* Many advancements and other AI models followed throughout the year, including paid subscriptions to monetize them.

Can you add anything memorable to you about artificial intelligence to this list?

Note: This list was mainly generated through a list of responses from several AI models such as Claude, Perplexity and Copilot. Results varied and no one AI reply included all of these events.

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