Artificial intelligence · 1956

Dartmouth AI workshop

A summer workshop names the field 'artificial intelligence' and gathers its founders.

John McCarthy, Marvin Minsky, Nathaniel Rochester and Claude Shannon proposed that every aspect of learning could be precisely described and simulated. The 1956 Dartmouth workshop coined the term artificial intelligence and set the research agenda for decades.

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What it built on 3

Logic Theorist 1956
Turing test 1950
McCulloch-Pitts neuron 1943

What it led to 2

Samuel's checkers learner 1956
LISP 1958

Related measurements

The dashed line marks when it first worked.

Training compute of notable AI models Source: Epoch AI, Notable AI Models (CC BY 4.0)

Computation per constant dollar, 1850-2006 Latest: 7.3B million units of computer power per 2006 $ (2003) Source: Nordhaus 2007, Two Centuries of Productivity Growth in Computing, J. Econ. Hist. 67(1), Table 6