Development of Artificial Intelligence -- A Brief History Bridged.co

First Law -- A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm. 2. Second Law -- A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law. Ever since Isaac Asimov penned down these fictional rules governing the behavior of intelligent robots -- in 1942 -- humanity has become fixated with the idea of making intelligent machines. After British mathematician Alan Turing devised the Turing Test as a benchmark for machines to be considered sufficiently smart, the term artificial intelligence was coined in 1956 at a summer conference in Dartmouth University, USA for the first time. Prominent scientists and researchers debated the best approaches to creating AI, favoring one that begins by teaching a computer the rules governing human behavior -- using reason and logic to process available information. There was plenty of hype and excitement about AI and several countries started funding research as well.