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When was AI invented?

When was AI invented? The history of AI dates back to 1940. Fast forward to this century and check out our AI timeline from the 2000s to now.

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History of AI

Artificial intelligence or AI has been around since the 1940s when Alan Turing and Donald Michie attended the code breaking school, in Bletchley Park. Then in 1955 John McCarthy coined the phrase ‘Artificial Intelligence’. Throughout the decades there's been advances in AI technology but it was the 2000s when it really started to grow and explode.

We’ve a brief timeline showing the rapid development and revolution of AI this century.

2000s

2002: Roomba the vacuum cleaning robot developed by iRobot

2004: Two Nasa Twin Rovers Spirit and Opportunity sent on Mars Exploration Rover mission

2007: First Apple iPhone released

2010s

2010: Virtual smart assistant Siri showcased by Apple

2012: Nevada granted autonomous vehicle licence to Google

2014: Amazon’s virtual assistant Alexa released

2016: Hanson Robotics created Sophia a human looking robot

2020s

2022: ChatGPT available to public for free, reaching 100 million users in 2 months

2024: Apple use ‘Apple Intelligence’ combined with ChatGPT

2024: Samsung Galaxy AI debuted on Galaxy S24 series

We hope you enjoyed our brief timeline on the history of Artificial Intelligence this century. You can also read up about what is AI?

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