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A BRIEF HISTORY
From its humble beginnings as a scientific curiosity to the powerful technology we know today, the journey and rise of AI has seen alternating periods of scarcity and abundance, doubt and optimism, and up-and-down levels of support, culminating in a sprint toward exponential growth. To understand where we are now as well as the future prospects of AI, we first need to look back at its past.
While the roots of artificial intelligence can be traced back to the period of classical philosophers who attempted to describe human thinking as a symbolic system (which was the original focus of AI research), the modern field of study and AI terminology have emerged relatively recently. The term artificial intelligence was ...
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