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A Journey Through the History of Artificial Intelligence
Discover how AI has evolved from ancient myths to modern day technology in this informative and captivating article on the history of artificial intelligence.
“Artificial intelligence is the next electricity.” — Andrew Ng
The history of artificial intelligence (AI) can be traced back to ancient times, with early examples of automated machines and robots appearing in Greek myths and legends. However, the modern field of AI as we know it today began to take shape in the mid-20th century.
Let us trace it back together.
In the 1950s, a group of researchers at Dartmouth College, led by John McCarthy, Marvin Minsky, Nathaniel Rochester, and Claude Shannon, proposed the idea of creating “thinking machines” that could perform tasks that normally required human intelligence. This proposal marked the birth of the field of AI as a scientific discipline.
During the 1950s and 1960s, AI researchers focused on creating programs that could perform specific tasks, such as playing chess or solving mathematical problems. These early programs, known as “expert systems,” were able to perform specific tasks by using a set of…
