Cancer and AI — Selected Events

1956

"AI" first defined

  • How to make machines use language, form abstractions and concepts, solve kinds of problems now reserved for humans, and improve themselves.— John McCarthy. 1956.
  • AI is a collective name for problems which we do not yet know how to solve properly by computer.— Bertram Raphael, via Donald Michie. 1971.
  • AI is whatever hasn’t been done yet.— Larry Tesler, via Douglas Hofstadter. 1979.
McCarthy, Minsky, Rochester & Shannon, Dartmouth Proposal (1955); workshop summer 1956
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