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Quick Tour of AI History: From 1950 to Now
AI is not new — people have been working on it for 75 years! Here are the big moments in a fast tour.
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- 1The big idea
- 2AI history
- 3milestones
- 4development
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Section 1
The big idea
AI feels new because chatbots got famous in 2022. But people have been building AI since 1950. Knowing the big moments helps you understand where we are now.
Some examples
- 1950: Alan Turing asks 'can machines think?'
- 1956: A meeting at Dartmouth College gives the field its name: artificial intelligence.
- 1997: IBM's Deep Blue beats world chess champion Garry Kasparov.
- 2022: ChatGPT launches and everyone suddenly knows what AI is.
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Pick one of these milestones. Look it up with a parent. Notice how each one built on the ones before.
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