Chapter 5AI Comes of Age: A Primer
What we want is a machine that can learn from experience.
Alan Turing
As a young Assistant Math Professor at Dartmouth, 1956 was shaping up to be a good year for John McCarthy. He had just scored a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation to underwrite a gathering to explore concepts for imbuing machines with intelligence. Pretty far-out stuff for the 1950s.
And so, that summer, a ragtag collection of mathematicians and scientists sequestered themselves on the top floor of the Dartmouth Math Department for what today would be considered a rolling two-month nerd-fest.
From this gathering came the term “Artificial Intelligence,” along with many concepts of how machines could use ...
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