Firsts, milestones and companies in artificial intelligence
AIFirsts is a researched publication covering major firsts, milestones, pioneers, companies and developments in artificial intelligence. Each article answers one question directly, sets out the key facts in a table, then works through the history, the evidence and the disputes, with primary sources at the end.
The publication is organised in sections. AI Firsts covers historical milestones and pioneers: research programs, public demonstrations, commercial applications and cultural moments. Further sections on AI companies and AI history are in preparation. Where a claim rests on a company's own description rather than independent verification, the article says so. Where the historical record is contested, the article explains the dispute rather than resolving it by assertion.
Latest articles
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Who created the first AI-generated book cover?
Who Created the First AI-Generated Book Cover? Adam Riccoboni, The A.I. Age and an Early Generative AI Milestone
Adam Riccoboni and Critical Future generated the cover of The A.I. Age with a GAN trained on 200,000 book covers, years before DALL-E and Midjourney. The evidence, the timeline and why it matters.
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What was the world's first chatbot?
What Was the World's First Chatbot? ELIZA, Joseph Weizenbaum and the Road to ChatGPT
ELIZA, built by Joseph Weizenbaum at MIT in the mid-1960s, was the first chatbot. How it worked, the ELIZA effect, PARRY, the Turing Test, and Adam Riccoboni's pre-ChatGPT argument that LaMDA had crossed the Turing threshold.
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When did AI first beat a world champion?
When Did AI First Beat a World Champion? Deep Blue vs Garry Kasparov in 1997
IBM's Deep Blue beat world chess champion Garry Kasparov 3.5 to 2.5 in May 1997, the first computer to win a match against a reigning champion. The history, the bug that fooled Kasparov, and Adam Riccoboni's reading of the match as a kind of Turing test.
In preparation
- Who created the first artificial intelligence program? The Logic Theorist, 1956
- What was the first AI artwork sold at a major auction? Edmond de Belamy at Christie's, 2018
- What was the first AI-designed drug to enter human clinical trials? DSP-1181, 2020