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Since ancient times, humans have innovated machines to make life easier. However, they
reached a stage where machines needed brains to perform tasks, sparking a revolutionary
idea for thinking machines. Let us look at some of the achievements of the last century.
Developments in AI
The journey to understand if machines could truly think began before John McCarthy’s
first academic conference. Five years earlier, Alan Turing wrote a paper on the notion of
machines being able to simulate human beings and the ability to do intelligent things, such
as playing chess. Let us take a look at some of the milestones in the previous century.
1950–1960
In this decade, two major contributions were observed. In 1950, Alan Turing submitted a
paper about the possibility of creating a machine that could think. This became a test for
machines to check the thinking capability of a machine. One of the greatest achievements
of Alan Turing is the creation of The Bombe, a machine that could decode the encoded
messages.
The Bombe was a code-breaking machine that was developed to decode encrypted
codes from German Enigma machines during World War II.
In 1956, John McCarthy coined the term Artificial
Intelligence in a conference held at Dartmouth
College. He created the programming language LISP
in 1958, which was extensively used to program AI
systems.
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