AI for Everyone: A Beginner's Handbook for Artificial Intelligence (AI) by Pearson

Chapter 1

Introduction

Deep in the annals of scientific history, in the early 1950s, a group of brilliant and visionary scientists embarked on a crucial journey that would forever alter the course of technological advancement. Led by the legendary computer scientist John McCarthy, this exceptional group explored the uncharted territory of creating an entity that could replicate and even surpass human intelligence—this concept would later be coined as artificial intelligence (AI).

Figure 1.1 Large computing machines

During this era, computers were colossal machines (refer Fig. 1.1), but possessed limited processing power. The notion of constructing ...