Brief History of Machine Learning
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Updated: 10 Nov 2017
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Created byWayne Dalton
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1950: Alan Turing
Can machines think?1959: Arthur Lee Samuel @ IBM
Coins term "Machine Learning"
Paper on Checkers1994: Chinook beats Dr. Marion Tinsley
First computer to beat a human world champion1967: Frank Rosenblatt's Perceptron
Forerunner to Neural Networks1967: K-nearest-neighbor algorithm published
Computers perform pattern recognition1979: Stanford Cart navigates
chair-filled room on its own
Hans Moravec PhD thesis1981: Gerald DeJong introduces
Explanation-based Learning
Machines can generalize rules from training data1997: IBM Deep Blue
beats world chess champion
Kasparov2006: Geoff Hinton coins "Deep Learning"
Computer vision - "sees" objects2010: Microsoft Kinect uses vision
to track human features @ 30 FPS2011: IBM Watson beats human
competitors at Jeopardy2012: Google X Lab learning algorithm
identifies cats in YouTube videos2015: Amazon and Microsoft launch
Machine Learning platforms2016: Google's DeepMind AlphaGo
beats Lee Sedol2017: OpenAI DOTA2 bot defeats
top 8 human players in tournament
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