AI: An ancient nightmare?
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The History of Artificial Intelligence
Turing died in the early part of the 1950s so he didn't live to see his dream of artificial intelligence pan out. A young American academic called John McCarthy similarly was interested in this idea that machines might do things that require intelligence in human beings. He asked for funding from the Rockefeller Foundation for a summer school, a workshop over an extended period of time at Dartmouth College and got the funding. To get the funding he had to apply for it and he had to give a name for the subject and he chose the term artificial intelligence. There's an unbroken connection down to the present day. We traditionally we date the founding of artificial intelligence to that summer school in 1956 in the summer of
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