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AI is now 70 years old!

The term that defines a generation of technology, "Artificial Intelligence," has its roots in a proposal written in 1955 for a 2-month 10-man study. It mentioned the following basis: " the conjecture that every aspect of learning or any other feature of intelligence can in principle be so precisely described that a machine can be made to simulate it. " It was made official in the 1956 summer workshop at Dartmouth College. Officially titled the "Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial Intelligence," this event is widely considered the birth of AI as a formal field of study. The project was the brainchild of John McCarthy, then a young mathematics professor at Dartmouth. He, along with a small group of fellow researchers, proposed the workshop based on a revolutionary premise: "every aspect of learning or any other feature of intelligence can in principle be so precisely described that a machine can be made to simulate it." This conjecture ...