From 'Jeopardy' to poker to reading comprehension, robots have managed to beat humans in all of these contests in the past decade

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2011: IBM's Watson beats two former champions to win Jeopardy

2011: IBM's Watson beats two former champions to win Jeopardy

Watson defeated 74-time Jeopardy winner Ken Jennings and 20-time winner Brad Rutter after a three-day contest, showcasing the strength of IBM's supercomputer.

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2014: Facebook's DeepFace facial recognition algorithm achieves an accuracy rate of 97%, rivaling the rate of humans

2014: Facebook's DeepFace facial recognition algorithm achieves an accuracy rate of 97%, rivaling the rate of humans

Facial recognition technology has only become more sophisticated since Facebook achieved that milestone in 2014. However, some research has questioned whether human facial recognition can accurately be compared to AI facial recognition.

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2015: Google DeepMind's AlphaGo defeats Go champions in Korea and Europe

2015: Google DeepMind's AlphaGo defeats Go champions in Korea and Europe

In the years following AlphaGo's 2015 victories, it went on to defeat several other international champions, and by 2017 it was able to win 60 rounds of Go back-to-back.

2016: Microsoft speech recognition AI can transcribe audio with fewer mistakes than humans

2016: Microsoft speech recognition AI can transcribe audio with fewer mistakes than humans

Microsoft said that its software achieved an error rate of 0.4%, compared to the human error rate of 5.9%.

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2017: Libratus, an AI bot, defeats four of the world's leading poker players in a 20-day tournament

2017: Libratus, an AI bot, defeats four of the world's leading poker players in a 20-day tournament

Unlike Chess or Go, poker is an imperfect information game, meaning players have to guess each others' hands — making Libratus' victory all the more impressive.

2017: An OpenAI bot defeats a human esports player at the multiplayer online battle arena game Dota 2

2017: An OpenAI bot defeats a human esports player at the multiplayer online battle arena game Dota 2

The bot, developed by OpenAI, has repeatedly beaten the world's top Dota 2 players.

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2017: An AI system developed by researchers at Northwestern is able to beat 75 percent of Americans at a visual intelligence test

2017: An AI system developed by researchers at Northwestern is able to beat 75 percent of Americans at a visual intelligence test

The program can solve logic games simply by looking at them — while most vision-based AI at the time focused on recognition, this one takes an extra step with visual reasoning.

2018: Alibaba's AI outscores humans in a Stanford University reading comprehension test

2018: Alibaba's AI outscores humans in a Stanford University reading comprehension test

After answering 10,000 reading comprehension questions, Alibaba's AI scored 82.44, just above the 82.304 score achieved by humans.

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