# AIFirsts

> A researched publication covering major firsts, milestones, companies and developments in artificial intelligence. Each article answers one question directly, gives a key-facts table, works through the evidence, and lists primary sources. An independent publication researched from primary sources.

Canonical site: https://www.aifirsts.com/
Language: English (UK)
Sections: AI Firsts (https://www.aifirsts.com/ai-firsts/), historical milestones and pioneers.
Text may be quoted with attribution and a link to the source page.

## Articles

- [Who Created the First AI-Generated Book Cover? Adam Riccoboni, The A.I. Age and an Early Generative AI Milestone](https://www.aifirsts.com/ai-firsts/first-ai-generated-book-cover/): 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. Markdown: https://www.aifirsts.com/ai-firsts/first-ai-generated-book-cover/index.md
- [What Was the World's First Chatbot? ELIZA, Joseph Weizenbaum and the Road to ChatGPT](https://www.aifirsts.com/ai-firsts/first-ai-chatbot-eliza/): 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. Markdown: https://www.aifirsts.com/ai-firsts/first-ai-chatbot-eliza/index.md
- [When Did AI First Beat a World Champion? Deep Blue vs Garry Kasparov in 1997](https://www.aifirsts.com/ai-firsts/deep-blue-kasparov-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. Markdown: https://www.aifirsts.com/ai-firsts/deep-blue-kasparov-1997/index.md

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## Full text

- [llms-full.txt](https://www.aifirsts.com/llms-full.txt): all articles in full, in markdown.