Where are we in the evolution of AI?
Change happens “gradually, then suddenly.” Ernest Hemingway
We are in the weeks when decades happen.
The conceptual groundwork for AI research began with Alan Turing and John McCarthy in the 1940s and 1950s. Alan Turing’s seminal paper, “Computing Machinery and Intelligence,” published in 1950, discussed the concept of intelligent machines and proposed the Turing Test (or imitation game) to assess machine intelligence. The Dartmouth Workshop in 1956 is widely considered the formal birth of AI as an academic discipline. It was at this workshop that the term “Artificial Intelligence” was first coined.
“There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.” Vladimir Lenin