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  Liezi

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  Talos

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  Aristotle

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  Panini

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  Al-Jazari

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  Leonardo

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  Descartes

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  Leibniz

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  Bayes

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  The Turk

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  Boole

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  Frege

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  R.U.R.

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  Neurons

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  Shannon

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  Turing

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  Dartmouth

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  Perceptron

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  Cybernetics

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  Asimov

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  L’Affaire XOR

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  HAL

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  GPS

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  Shakey and Freddy

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  Reinforcement Learning

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  Kernels

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  Lighthill

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  Expert Systems

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  Trees

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  Search

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  Machine Learning

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  Learnability

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  Backprop

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  SVMs

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  Bayes Nets

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  UCI

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  ILP

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  Deep Blue

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  Watson

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  Deep Networks

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  Robot Science

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  AI Accelerators

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  AlphaGo

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  Androids

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Liezi

Probably the earliest descriptions of an automaton that we have is in the Liezi, from about 450 BCE. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Mu_of_Zhou#Automaton

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Talos

In about 300 BCE, Apollonius of Rhodes describes Talos, in the Agonautica, an artificial creaton of Hephaestus, who also made many other kinds of automata. Read more about the automato of Hephaestus in:

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Aristotle

The use of logic for representation and reasoning, as well as the use of data to discover cause and effect can be found in the works of Aristotle. See more at:

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Panini

A comprehensive morphological theory of a matural language by Panini. This resulted in the earliest rule-based generator of well-formed words and sentences. Read more about Panini’s rules at:

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Al-Jazari

Clocks and mechanical automata provide us with earliest form or real robots. The master of early robotics from the Islamic Golden Age was Ismail al-Jazari. Read more about al-Jazari’s astonishing creations at:

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Leonardo

It would be surprising if Leonardo did not design a robot. And indeed he did. It is thought Leonardo was infludenced in his design by al-Jazari’s work. Read more about Leonardo’s robots at:

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Descartes

Rene Descartes, no doubt inflienced by automata such as the ones constructed by Leonardo, proposed a dualism between mind and body. Descartes probably would not have agreed that the workings of the human mind could be emulated by a machine, but a dualist approach is implicit in AI. See more about Cartesian dualism at:

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Leibniz

Leibniz’s early development of logic and computation inevitably influenced later developments by Boole, Frege and Babbage, and forming the prototype for modelling human reasoning using logic, and eventually, computers. Read about Leibniz’s many interests and contributions at:

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Bayes

In an article about Thomas Bayes it is noted: “the date of his birth is not known: Bayes’s posterior is better known than his prior. “ Indeed, it is not even known what he looked like (the one picture may not be him). But there is no doubt that he did formulate the specific case of the general theorem that bears his name, and forms the basis of the substantial body of modern AI on based on probabilistic models. To read more about the Rev. Bayes and his theorem, see Sharon Bertsch McGrayne’s book The Theory that Would Not Die and Eliezer Yudkowsy’s bloc at:

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The Turk

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Boole

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Frege

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R.U.R.

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Neurons

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Shannon

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Turing

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Dartmouth

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Perceptron

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Asimov

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HAL

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GPS

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Shakey and Freddy

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Reinforcement Learning

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Kernels

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Lighthill

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Expert Systems

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Trees

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Search

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Machine Learning

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Learnability

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Backprop

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SVMs

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Bayes Nets

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UCI

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ILP

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Deep Blue

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Watson

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Deep Networks

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Robot Science

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AI Accelerators

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AlphaGo

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Androids

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Cybernetics

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L’Affaire XOR