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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.

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