AI Foundations
Dartmouth workshop
The 1956 Dartmouth summer research project associated with the early formation of artificial intelligence as a field.
Example
A history lesson discusses the workshop's ambitions for machine intelligence.
Why people use it
It provides historical background information for the early ambitions of AI research.
What you'll hear
“What did the researchers hope to achieve in 1956?”
What this means for you
Treat historical founding events as background information for a much longer development process.
Can you control it?
No
No direct control. This describes a wider issue, concept or result rather than something you can simply switch on or off in a tool.
Common questions
- Did AI suddenly become a complete working technology at the workshop?
- No. It was an early research milestone, not the completion of the field.
- Did people study machine intelligence before it?
- Yes. Earlier work on computing, logic and learning helped prepare the ground.
- Did every later AI approach come from the workshop?
- No. The field developed through many later projects, discoveries and disagreements.