AI Evolution Museum

All Eras 1900s 1950s 2000s 2020s 2050+

Immersive historic AI exhibits

The Mechanical Turk

The Mechanical Turk

Experience the illusion of the Mechanical Turk, an 18th century chess-playing automaton that concealed a human chess master. While not true AI, it foreshadowed the fascination with thinking machines.

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Cybernetics & Grey Walter's Tortoises

Grey Walter's Tortoises

Explore the early development of autonomous robots and the birth of cybernetics in the 1940s and 50s. Interact with simulations of Grey Walter's tortoise robots that exhibited complex behaviors.

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Dartmouth Workshop & the Birth of AI

1956 Dartmouth Workshop

Travel back to 1956 and attend the influential Dartmouth Workshop where the field of artificial intelligence was born. Interact with early AI pioneers like John McCarthy, Marvin Minsky, Nathaniel Rochester and Claude Shannon.

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ELIZA & Early Chatbots

ELIZA chatbot

Have a conversation with ELIZA, the early chatbot developed by Joseph Weizenbaum in the 1960s. Experience the illusion of intelligence through simple pattern matching techniques.

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Expert Systems & MYCIN

MYCIN expert system

Step into the role of a 1970s physician and use the MYCIN expert system to diagnose bacterial infections. Experience the early success of rule-based AI in narrow domains.

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Kasparov vs Deep Blue

Garry Kasparov playing chess

Witness the historic 1997 chess match between World Champion Garry Kasparov and IBM's Deep Blue supercomputer. Experience the drama as machine triumphs over man for the first time in this mentally demanding game.

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Rise of Machine Learning & ImageNet

Example ImageNet images

Explore the impact of big data and the resurgence of neural networks in the 2010s. Test your image recognition skills against AI models trained on massive datasets like ImageNet.

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GPT-3 & Language Models

GPT-3 language model

Converse with GPT-3, the groundbreaking language model released in 2020. Experience the power and pitfalls of large AI systems trained on vast amounts of online data.

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The Future of AI

Futuristic AI imagery

Step into imaginative future worlds shaped by artificial intelligence - both utopian and dystopian. Consider the implications of superintelligent AI systems and the singularity.

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