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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 (the top AI chess player) AlphaGo
in a 100-game match without losing a single game.
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.

Google launched Google Home, a series of smart devices
aimed at home automation. Sophia
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

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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.

 The American computer scientist John McCarthy coined the term Artificial
Intelligence at the Dartmouth Conference in 1956.
 Joseph Weizenbaum created the first chatbot, named ELIZA, in 1966.

 Ichiro Kato at Tokyo’s Waseda University developed WABOT-1, the first
full-scale anthropomorphic robot.
 In 2004, NASA’s Mars Exploration Rovers, Spirit and Opportunity, land on Mars
using AI-assisted navigation.

 Sophia, the humanoid robot, became the first robot to receive the citizenship of a
country, Saudi Arabia, in 2017.

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A. Tick [3] the correct option.

1. The first robot to become the citizen of a country is ______.

Siri Sophia

ASIMO WABOT-1

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