Asia’s AI agenda 15 Infographics on AI 2004 2011 DARPA sponsors its first “Grand IBM’s Watson defeats Jeopardy! champions Challenge,” which pits research teams Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter in a televised against each other to design driverless two-game, three-night face-off that ends with 2000 vehicles capable of independently the computer amassing more than three times traversing the Mojave Desert. the winnings of its human competitors. Cynthia Breazeal designs a sociable humanoid robot named Kismet that is able to express emotion and recognize cues from interaction with humans. 1997 2012 IBM’s Deep Blue chess computer avenges its prior defeat to world A team from Geoff Hinton’s lab wins 1987 champion Garry Kasparov in a tense the ImageNet Large Scale Visual match commemorated in a documentary Recognition Challenge with deep- Ernst Dickmanns and collaborators equip film, The Man vs. the Machine. learning software that could within five a Mercedes van with video cameras, guesses identify a thousand types of microprocessors, and other electronics to objects about 85 percent of the time, a demonstrate autonomous driving at almost 60 1984 huge improvement in accuracy. miles per hour. After much other AI research falls short, DARPA cuts the project’s budget. Douglas Lenat begins the Cyc project, an ambitious attempt to create a common- 2014 sense knowledge base that can 1979 eventually become self-educating. Little Google acquires DeepMind progress is seen for decades. Technologies, a small London-based A backgammon program developed by startup focused on deep learning, Hans Berliner defeats the reigning world a relatively new field of artificial champion in a match, the first time a 1972 intelligence that aims to achieve tasks computer has defeated a champion-level like recognizing faces in video or words in competitor in an intellectual game. AI takes a hit when philosopher Hubert human speech. Dreyfus publishes “What Computers Can’t Do,” a manifesto challenging the 2016 1966 predictions of AI researchers, and scientist James Lighthill pens a pessimistic review Google’s AlphaGo decisively beats the Joseph Weizenbaum demonstrates ELIZA, of progress in AI research in the U.K., world champion of the complex board the world’s first chat program, which is able to leading to funding cuts. game Go. converse using a series of preprogrammed phrases, sometimes to comic effect. Improving Translation By adding industry- and company-specific words, sentences, With this many translated and translated documents, Microsoft has created tools that sentences to help users improve translation. work with, quality Translated system begins sentences learning new tion added to terms in their Adds industry improve business Focused ansla or business tone and context r Translation is by type of T done without specific words terminology content to be only customization translated Microsoft Translator Standard Dictionary 1,000-5,000 5,000-50,000 Models Category Parallel Sentences Parallel Sentences Source: MIT Technology Review’s “AI Takes Off” Business Report © MIT Technology Review, 2016. All Rights Reserved.