2001 Smarterchild
Developed by ActiveBuddy , Smarterchild was available on AOL IM and MSN Messenger and could carry out fun conversations with quick data access to other services . It became very popular with users , attracting over 30 million Instant Messenger " buddies " on AIM ( AOL ), MSN and Yahoo Messenger over the course of its lifetime .
2010 Siri
Formed by Apple for iOS in 2010 , Siri is an intelligent personal assistant and learning navigator that uses a natural language UI that became the blueprint system for all AI bots and PAs after that . It paved a way for other similar tools including
Google Assistant , launched in 2012 , and Microsoft ’ s Cortana and Amazon ’ s Alexa , both launched in 2014 .
2022 LaMDA
Google launches an app that lets users interact with its Lamda AI . The company began allowing users to download and register for the AI Test Kitchen App , using a Google account on either
Android or Apple devices . First revealed in May , it lets users chat with LaMDA in a rolling set of test demos . technologymagazine . com 17