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Turing Test & Birth of AI
Turing asks in 1950 whether machines can think; in 1956 the Dartmouth conference names the field “artificial intelligence”.
Open in the interactive tree →In 1950 Alan Turing proposed an “imitation game”: can a person in a text conversation fail to tell a machine from a human? John McCarthy coined the term “Artificial Intelligence” at the 1956 Dartmouth workshop. Early programs proved theorems and played checkers; expectations far outran the available computing power.