https://www.aifirsts.com/ A researched publication covering major firsts, milestones, companies and developments in artificial intelligence. en-gb Fri, 11 Sep 2026 09:00:00 +0100 https://www.aifirsts.com/ai-firsts/first-ai-generated-book-cover/ https://www.aifirsts.com/ai-firsts/first-ai-generated-book-cover/ Fri, 11 Sep 2026 09:00:00 +0100 AIFirsts Editorial AI Firsts 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. https://www.aifirsts.com/ai-firsts/first-ai-chatbot-eliza/ https://www.aifirsts.com/ai-firsts/first-ai-chatbot-eliza/ Fri, 11 Sep 2026 09:00:00 +0100 AIFirsts Editorial AI Firsts 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. https://www.aifirsts.com/ai-firsts/deep-blue-kasparov-1997/ https://www.aifirsts.com/ai-firsts/deep-blue-kasparov-1997/ Fri, 11 Sep 2026 09:00:00 +0100 AIFirsts Editorial AI Firsts 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.