Virtual Assistants Through the Years

~from talking heads to Siri~ 13th Century talking heads, prophetic devices that could answer 1941 first electronic computer developed START any question, were said to be created by Roger Bacon & Albert the Great i ir .... ... 1951 1942 99339 first artificial intelligence programs written first mechanical digital calculating machine, created by Pascal 1970 SRI robot "Shakey" completed tasks that involved planning, route-finding, & rearranging objects 1979 Stanford Cart becomes the first computer controlled autonomous vehicle 1994 the twin robot cars VAMP and VITA-2 drive more than 3 thousand kilometers on a Paris highway CYSEPHO 6243 Feb. 2011 Mar. 2011 PIRNSE THINK DENKE IBM's "Watson" defeated the two greatest Jeopardy champions Google produces self-driving cars and gets a liscense in Nevada HINI $3,400 $4,400 $1,200 KEN WATSON BRAD Oct. 2011 Apple launches Siri, a virtual assistant on the iPhone 4s, that relied on cloud- based processing PRESENT Sources http://www.pcworld.com/article/243060/speech_recognition through_the_decades_how_we_ended_up_with_siri.html http://aitopics.net/BriefHistory http://aitopics.net/AINews http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/infographic- the-1-000-year-evolution-of-speech-and-voice- recognition.php http://www.timetoast.com/timelines/artificial-intelligence Created by Easilydo