A Brief History of Artificial Intelligence

The concept of AI has been around for many decades. British mathematician Alan Turing proposed in 1950 that it might be possible for machines to use information to reason, solve problems, and make decisions. His framework is the basis of the Turing Test, which says an AI system learns until indistinguishable from a human being in its ability to hold a conversation. In 1956, a team presented proof of concept on AI at the Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial Intelligence. Also in the 1950s, a group of researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) began work that would become the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.