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Developments in AI


                  The  journey  to understand  if machines could  truly  think  began  much before  John

                  McCarthy’s first academic conference. In Vannevar Bush’s seminal work as we may think,

                  he proposed a system which amplifies people’s own knowledge and understanding. Five
                  years later, 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, 2 major contributions were observed. Alan Turing submitted a paper about
                  the possibility of creating a machine that could think in 1950. 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.































                                Brainy Fact


                     The Bombe was a code breaking machine that was developed to decode encrypted codes
                     from German Enigma machine during the World War II.











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