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9                                Evolution of AI


















                                Your Aim

                                to learn about:

                                       1950s                            1960s
                                         1970 to 1990s                   2000 to 2010
                                          2010 to Present



                 Artificial Intelligence is the ability of a machine to think and learn. Since many

                 years,  scientists  have been trying  to make machines artificially intelligent, that
                 is close to human intelligence. Let's learn how Artificial Intelligence has evolved
                 during these years and take a look at some of the revolutionary inventions.

                     1950s


                 In this decade, two major contributions
                 were  observed.  In  1950,  Alan Turing
                 submitted a paper about the possibility

                 of creating machine that would think.
                 This became a test for machines to
                 check their thinking capability.
                                                                        Alan Turing                 Bombe
                 One  of  the  greatest achievements
                 of Alan Turing is the creation of Bombe, a machine that could decode encoded

                 messages.



                                               In 1956, John  McCarthy, coined the term Artificial
                                               Intelligence in a conference. He created the programming
                                               language  LISP in 1958 which  was  extensively used  to

                                               program AI systems. He is known as 'Father of AI'.


                       John McCarthy

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