Precursors

Birth of Machine Intelligence (Before 1956)

Approaches

Problems

Boom (1980–1987)

Myth and legend

Cybernetics and early neural networks

Reasoning as search

End of funding

Rise of expert systems

AI winter

Milestones and Moore's law

Deep learning

Medieval Legends of Artificial Beings

COMPUTER SCIENCE

Turing Test

Birth of Artificial Intelligence (1956–1974)

Neural networks

First AI winter (1974–1980)

Critiques

Knowledge revolution

Bust: second AI winter (1987–1993)

AI (1993–2011)

Intelligent agents

Deep learning, big data and artificial general intelligence: 2011–present

Big Data

The Future

Modern fiction

Game AI

Natural language

Perceptrons and the attack on connectionism

Money returns: Fifth Generation project

Nouvelle AI and embodied reason

Probabilistic reasoning and greater rigor

Large language models

Formal reasoning

Symbolic reasoning and the Logic Theorist

Micro-worlds

Logic at Stanford, CMU and Edinburgh

Revival of neural networks