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The Birth of a Field (1950s-1960s)

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The Birth of a Field (1950s-1960s)

The formal birth of AI as a discipline is often attributed to the historic Dartmouth Workshop of 1956, where luminaries like John McCarthy, Marvin Minsky, Claude Shannon, and Herbert Simon gathered to explore how machines could "simulate every aspect of learning or any other feature of intelligence." This period was characterized by unbridled optimism, with researchers making significant progress in symbolic reasoning, problem-solving, and early natural language processing. The creation of programs like Logic Theorist and General Problem Solver suggested that artificial general intelligence might be just around the corner.