Forbes January 14, 2025
Gil Press

The term “artificial intelligence” was coined seventy years ago, defined as computer-related research based on the assumption that any feature of human intelligence can be simulated in a machine. The seven decades that followed have been characterized by exaggerated promises and subsequent disappointments, surprising developments and re-emergence of discredited methods, and widespread excitement and anxiety fed by gullible press and popular fiction.

August 1955 The term “artificial intelligence” is coined in a proposal submitted by John McCarthy, Marvin Minsky, Nathaniel Rochester, and Claude Shannon. The resultant workshop, which took place at Dartmouth College in July and August 1956, is considered the official birthdate of the new field.

December 1955 Herbert Simon and Allen Newell develop the Logic Theorist, the first...

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