1950 - Alan Turing invents the Turing Test 

1956 - John McCarthy coins 'artificial intelligence'

1961 - Eliza, the first chatbot created 

1966 - Shakey the robot -first general purpose robot

              used reasoning for actions

1968 - Stanley Kubrick's "2001: A Space Odyssey

              portrayed AI, Marvin Minsky was an advisor  

1973 - AI Winter, funding cut due to lack of progress

1990 - Rodney Brooks and advances in neuroscience

              revive AI 

1997 - Deep Blue defeats world champion chess

              player, Garry Kasparov

1999 - AiBO by Sony, first robot pet dog sold to

             public 

2005 - Boston Dynamics creates Big Dog and iRobot

             creates PackBot for the U.S. military

2011 - Siri, virtual assistant, is added to Apple

              iPhone4S 

2011 - Watson (IBM) competes and takes 1st place

              on Jeopardy

2014 - Eugene Goostman, 1st chatbot to pass Turing 

              Test      

2014 - Alexa, Amazon's virtual assistant is born