Commemorating 70 Years of Artificial Intelligence (opens in new tab)

AI as a distinct field was formally established in 1956 at the Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial Intelligence, proposed by John McCarthy, Marvin Minsky, Nathaniel Rochester, and Claude Shannon. In their August 1955 proposal for the research project, the scientists introduced the term artificial intelligence and envisioned machines capable of simulating human intelligence.AI is the “science of making machines do things that would require intelligence if done by men,” as defined b...