A (Very) Brief History of Artificial Intelligence

L. Frank Baum, who gave us the Wizard he history of AI is a history of fantasies, promise. Ever since Homer wrote of mechanical of Oz. Baum wrote of several robots and described "tripods" waiting on the gods at dinner, the mechanical man Tiktok in 1907, for imagined mechanical assistants have been example, as an "Extra-Responsive, Thought-a part of our culture. However, only in the last Creating, Perfect-Talking Mechanical Man … half century have we, the AI community, been Thinks, Speaks, Acts, and Does Everything but able to build experimental machines that test Live." These writers have inspired many AI researchers.