Brief History of Machine Learning

1950: Alan Turing Can machines think?

1959: Arthur Lee Samuel @ IBM Coins term "Machine Learning" Paper on Checkers

1994: Chinook beats Dr. Marion Tinsley First computer to beat a human world champion

1967: Frank Rosenblatt's Perceptron Forerunner to Neural Networks

1967: K-nearest-neighbor algorithm published Computers perform pattern recognition

1979: Stanford Cart navigates chair-filled room on its own Hans Moravec PhD thesis

1981: Gerald DeJong introduces Explanation-based Learning Machines can generalize rules from training data

1997: IBM Deep Blue beats world chess champion Kasparov

2006: Geoff Hinton coins "Deep Learning" Computer vision - "sees" objects

2010: Microsoft Kinect uses vision to track human features @ 30 FPS

2011: IBM Watson beats human competitors at Jeopardy

2012: Google X Lab learning algorithm identifies cats in YouTube videos

2015: Amazon and Microsoft launch Machine Learning platforms

2016: Google's DeepMind AlphaGo beats Lee Sedol

2017: OpenAI DOTA2 bot defeats top 8 human players in tournament