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These developments help machines work smarter, faster and support humans in many tasks.

AI INDUSTRY PIONEERS

Humans have always tried to make machines smart and capable enough to work on their own.
The foundation of this thought was first laid at Dartmouth College by John McCarthy. Similarly,
over the years, there have been many notable contributors in the field of Artificial Intelligence.
Let us have a look at some these pioneers in the field of Artificial Intelligence whose contribution

proved to be a milestone for the future generation. Here are a few key figures:
Alan Turing

Alan Turing was a brilliant British Mathematician, Biologist and Computer
Scientist. His Turing Machine was one of the first, basic computers
created. In 1950, Alan Turing published a ground breaking seminal paper
“Computing Machinery and Intelligence” on the topic of artificial intelligence.
It introduced the concept of what is now known as Turing Test.

The test is still a matter of standards today. It establishes that if a computer
can have a simple dialogue with a person via a printer, then that itself is
a proof that the machine is “thinking”. It was for this work that led him to be regarded as the
Father of Theoretical Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence.

Factbot

In 2014, a chatbot posing as a 13-year-old Ukrainian boy, earned the title of the first machine to
pass the Turing Test. The bot, dubbed Eugene Goostman, convinced a third of the judges he spoke
to that he was a human.

John McCarthy

John McCarthy was an American Computer Scientist and Cognitive Scientist.
He is known as the “Father of Artificial Intelligence”. He developed the
LISP (an acronym for List Processing) programming language and soon
it became the choice of programming language. In 1971 he received
the Turing Award. He was a pioneer in Mathematical Logic for Artificial
Intelligence.

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