0000 History of AI

A brief history of AI might be as follows. Since programming computers is hugely time consuming, we started wondering if we could make them mimic our ability to learn.

• It was started (and term coined) in 1956 (Dartmouth) with a conference on how to make machines think. (Basically, let's spend money on a brainstorming conference, travel and food). And they accomplished? Nothing but a plan, which yielded little tangible other than a few pipe-dreams about what the future might bring, and a framework for some terms (and study) that was later obsoleted. The technology and understanding just weren't mature enough to create anything more useful than cavemen pondering mechanical flight.
• There was a few more breakthru's on ideas of how it might happen over the next couple decades, then people finally realized the research was producing anything of any commercial value, and wasn't likely to, and while 1974-1980 is considered an AI winter (where funding dried up), as was 1987-1993, but as far as accomplishments, 1956-1993 was the AI stone age, where a few nescient ideas and terms leaked out, but not much else.

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