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History of artificial intelligence

  • Strategic Computing InitiativeThe Strategic Computing Initiative set itself one of the most ambitious goals in the history of technology: a machine that could run ten billion instructions…
  • Lighthill reportThe Lighthill report arrived in 1973 with a verdict that shook the world of artificial intelligence research. James Lighthill, a distinguished British…
  • Logic TheoristLogic Theorist, completed in 1956 by Allen Newell, Herbert A. Simon, and Cliff Shaw, is widely described as the first artificial intelligence program ever…
  • SHRDLUTerry Winograd began work on SHRDLU at MIT between 1968 and 1970. He wrote the program using Lisp and Micro Planner languages.
  • Computing Machinery and IntelligenceIn 1950, Alan Turing published a paper in the journal Mind that opened with three words that would echo through the following decades: "Can machines think?"…
  • Darwin among the Machines"Darwin among the Machines" arrived in the pages of The Press newspaper on the 13th of June 1863, published in Christchurch, New Zealand.
  • AI boomChatGPT became the 4th-most visited website in the world, behind only Google, YouTube, and Facebook. It reached that position after growing to over 100…
  • History of artificial intelligenceThe history of artificial intelligence begins not in a Silicon Valley lab, but in the myths and forges of ancient Greece, where Hephaestus, god of the forge…
  • AI winterAI winter is the name researchers gave to something that kept happening: a surge of excitement about artificial intelligence, followed by crushing…
  • Dartmouth workshopOn the 2nd of September 1955, four scientists put their names to a document that would change the course of computing. John McCarthy, Marvin Minsky…
  • Turing testThe Turing test asks a deceptively simple question: can a machine think? Alan Turing posed that question in his 1950 paper "Computing Machinery and…
  • Frame (artificial intelligence)In June 1974, Marvin Minsky published a paper titled A Framework for Representing Knowledge at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.
  • Microelectronics and Computer Technology CorporationIn 1982, Japan announced a project that rattled the American computer industry to its core. The Fifth Generation Project, a government-backed research…