5 fun facts about the history of AI

Following this, the US government gave funding to McCarthy and fellow scientist Marvin Minsky to develop AI to help strengthen their stance in the Cold War with Russia. Efforts were made to use artificial intelligence to understand the patterns behind the Russian language, which they hoped would enable them to translate Russian documents on a larger scale more quickly. Government funding for AI was slashed as not enough progress had been made. In 1973, Professor Sir James Lighthill argued that machines would never be capable of achieving more than an "experienced amateur" level of chess. Deep Blue was capable of analysing up to 200 million potential positions a second.