What was the first ever thing AI could do?

Question: What was the first ever thing AI could do?
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  invention,
  technology
Asked by anon-380909 on 17 Jan 2024.
- Rosemary J Thomas answered on 17 Jan 2024:
  
  The first ever thing AI could do was to act like a mouse that could find its way out of a maze. It was made by Claude Shannon in 1950 and was called Theseus.
  
  https://ourworldindata.org/brief-history-of-ai
- Carl Peter Robinson answered on 17 Jan 2024:
  
  This is a tricky question because people will debate when the first example of an AI was created. I will start that ball rolling and say there was a lot of interest in AI in the 1940s and 1950s, but this was using specialist machines built for specific purposes, not like the computers we use today. I would say that one of the first things an “AI” was used for were experiments in computers playing games of chess. We seem to fall back on games in our experiments as scientists and in doing so, have pushed progress and made several breakthroughs in the field of AI.
- Gerard Canal answered on 18 Jan 2024:
  
  Acting in the physical world, Shakey the robot (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shakey_the_robot) was the first robot that used reasoning capabilities to act in the real world. Shakey was created in the late 1060s in Stanford.
- Muhammad Malik answered on 18 Jan 2024:
  
  well i think, the answer to that would be mathematical problems and logic puzzles etc….

Question: What was the first ever thing AI could do?