Should Artificial Superintelligence be Developed?

Shakey was the first general-purpose mobile robot. It is able to make decisions about its own actions through reasoning of its environment.

Supporters of top-down AI created a supercomputer Deep Blue, which took on world chess champion Garry Kasparov and won.

iRobot, created the first autonomous vacuum cleaner called Roomba that was commercially successful for the home. Over 10 million units was sold all over the world.

BigDog, made by Boston Dynamics, was one of the first robot built to serve as a robotic pack animal in terrain too rough for conventional vehicles. It has never actually seen active service.

PackBot is a bomb disposal robot. It uses user control together with intelligent capabilities such as explosives sniffing to detect bombs. Over 2000 PackBots have been used in Iraq and Afghanistan.

a Google app with speech recognition was made in November 2008. It was a small feature that appeared on the new Apple iPhone.

AI saw a push for humanoid robots in 2010. As new technology meant smaller computers could also pack a bigger punch. This enabled humanoid robots, like the NAO robot, to do things that was impossible for predecessors robots like Shakey.

In 2011, IBM's Watson took on the human brain on US quiz show Jeopardy. Watson had to answer riddles and complex questions which is much harder than chess.

Sophia is the first social humanoid robot ever made. She is now the world’s first robot citizen and the first robot Innovation Ambassador for the United Nations Development Programme.

Facebook's AI created its own language that even researchers could not understand. They dropped the experiment after two AI programs seems to be chatting to each other in a strange language only they understood.

Google AI creates its own 'child' AI that's more advanced than systems built by humans

DeepMind’s AI was able to solve protein structures, which is a huge leap in the AI development.