A Timeline of Artificial Intelligence - The 2000s

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All of these events are explained in my book "Intelligence is not Artificial".

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2000: Cynthia Breazeal's emotional robot, "Kismet" 2000: Seth Lloyd's "Ultimate physical limits to computation" 2000: Hirochika Inoue's humanoid robot H6 2000: Honda's humanoid robot "Asimo" 2001: Juyang Weng's "Autonomous mental development by robots and animals" 2001: Herbert Jaeger`s echo state networks 2001: Nikolaus Hansen introduces the evolution strategy called "Covariance Matrix Adaptation" (CMA) for numerical optimization of non-linear problems 2001: Yoshua Bengio's "Neural Probabilistic Language Model" 2002: iRobot's Roomba 2002: Wolfgang Maass and Henry Markram's liquid state machines 2002: Ronan Collobert develops the deep-learning platform Torch 2003: Hiroshi Ishiguro's Actroid, a robot that looks like a young woman 2003: Jackrit Suthakorn and Gregory Chirikjian build an autonomous self-replicating robot 2003: Gabriela Csurka's bag-of-features 2003: Tai-Sing Lee's "Hierarchical Bayesian inference in the visual cortex" 2003: DARPA's assessment of progress in speech recognition 2003: Klaus Loeffler's humanoid robot Johnnie 2004: Mark Tilden's biomorphic robot Robosapien 2005: Jun-ho Oh's humanoid robot Hubo 2005: Hod Lipson's "self-assembling machine" at Cornell University 2005: Patrice Simard uses GPUs to implement a neural network 2005: Andrew Ng at Stanford launches the STAIR project (Stanford Artificial Intelligence Robot) 2005: Sebastian Thrun's driverless car Stanley wins DARPA's Grand Challenge 2005: Pietro Perona's and Fei-Fei's "A Bayesian Hierarchical Model for Learning Natural Scene Categories" 2005: Boston Dynamics' quadruped robot "BigDog" 2006: Geoffrey Hinton's Deep Belief Networks ("A Fast Learning Algorithm for Deep Belief Nets") 2006: The Monte Carlo tree search algorithm 2006: Scott Hassan founds robot startup Willow Garage 2006: Alex Graves' connectionist temporal classification (CTC) 2006: Osamu Hasegawa's Self-Organising Incremental Neural Network (SOINN), a self-replicating neural network for unsupervised learning 2007: Yeshua Bengio's Stacked Auto-Encoders ("Greedy Layer-wise Training of Deep Networks") 2007: Stanford unveils the Robot Operating System (ROS) 2008: Dharmendra Modha at IBM launches a project to build a neuromorphic processor 2008: Oriza Hirata's theatrical play "Hataraku Watashi/ I Worker" features a robot 2008: Cynthia Breazeal's team at the MIT's Media Lab unveils Nexi, the first mobile-dexterous-social (MDS) robot 2009: Fei-fei Li's ImageNet database of human-tagged images 2009: ARPA's assessment of progress in speech recognition