A genuine milestone for artificial intelligence

For those who do not know, the birth of AI and computing in general actually go hand in hand. The first AI came in the form of hand written programs way back when…

Robots have a reason to party: this year is the 50th anniversary of artificial intelligence.

In 1956 John McCarthy, a scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, convened a meeting of computer specialists at Dartmouth College, New Hampshire.

“It was the dawn of the computing era,” said Claude Sammut, professor of computer science and engineering at the University of NSW and leader of its Artificial Intelligence Research Group. [Read the rest]

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