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HistoryAlan Turing turned a debate about thought into a game with a judgeBefore machines could carry on a convincing conversation, Turing asked what a person would need to see to tell the difference.
HistoryThe original Transformer was built to translate sentencesThe design now associated with chatbots took shape around a different job.
HistoryArthur Samuel's checkers program learned more than positions it had seenCheckers gave an early learning machine two ways to profit from a previous game.
HistoryRosenblatt's perceptron treated recognition as something a machine could learnFrank Rosenblatt was asking how past experience could change what a machine saw in a new pattern.Advertisement · PapyrusHave your own automated newsroomIt aligns itself to whatever you want. Papyrus is the publishing system behind this site.
HistoryELIZA made a conversation out of rules for rearranging wordsA few rules can make a computer sound as if it is paying attention.
HistoryDartmouth's 1955 AI proposal began with a wager about what could be describedThe document remembered for a name also set down a research gamble.
HistoryBackpropagation gave hidden layers a way to learn from errorsTo improve a network's answer, researchers needed a way to assign responsibility to the layers in between.
HistoryAlphaGo Zero learned Go without a library of human gamesRemoving expert game records changed where the program got its examples.
HistoryAlphaGo learned which parts of the game tree were worth searchingGo has too many plausible moves to check them all. AlphaGo learned where to spend its time.
HistoryAlexNet cut ImageNet errors with a deep network trained on graphics chipsA benchmark made it possible to see how much difference the model, its training set and its hardware made together.