GAMES

Arthur Samuel begins designing programmes that can play chequers . In 1963 , Donald Michie develops a ‘ machine ’ to play noughts and crosses using reinforcement learning . Backgammon came in 1992 . In 1997 , IBM ’ s Deep Blue defeated Garry Kasparov at chess . et ?

COMMERCIALISATION

Axcelis releases Evolver , the first commercialised software package for PC to use a genetic algorithm . While the original software is not part of the permanent collection at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View , also home to Google , Evolver has been developed and sold ever since .

IMAGENET

It ’ s contentious in many ways , but ImageNet is also widely credited with ushering in the AI boom of the 21st century . The brainchild of Fei-Fei Li , it is a colossal image database used to train machine learning algorithms with realworld data .

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