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• 2016: AlphaGo, an AI-developed algorithm,

defeated Lee Sedol, the world’s number one
Go player. AlphaGo was upgraded a year later
into a generalised and more powerful algorithm

AlphaZero. AlphaZero learned how to play master-
level chess in just four hours and defeated Stockfish AlphaGo

(the top AI chess player) in a 100-game match without losing a single game.
• 2017: Sophia, the humanoid robot, is unveiled by Hanson
Robotics. It became the first robot to receive the citizenship

of a country, Saudi Arabia, in 2017. Sophia was named the
United Nations Development Programme’s first Innovation

Champion and is the first non-human to be given a United
Nations title.
Google launched Google Home, a series of smart devices Sophia

aimed at home automation.
Elon Musk launched Neuralink Corporation, a company

that aims to create an interface between humans and
machines to accelerate machine learning.
• 2018: The Project Debater from IBM debated complex topics

with two master debaters and performed extremely well. Google Home
Devices

Database Subject Enrichment

In the coming years, Artificial Intelligence will be a key technology in several spheres
of activity which were considered dependent on human expertise. AI in healthcare

and medicine will enable the diagnosis of diseases and the development of vaccines.
Biometrics using AI will make the scanning of facial features and fingerprints more
robust. Detection of fraud and preventing cybercrimes will get a boost from AI-enabled
profiling techniques.

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 The concept of Artificial Intelligence took birth during the early 1940s.
 Alan Turing proposed the Turing Test in 1950 to measure the intelligence of

machines.

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