A brief history of AI

A brief history of AI

Alan Turing famously thought that the question of whether machines can think is “too meaningless” to deserve discussion. To better define “thinking machines” or artificial intelligence, Turing proposed “The Imitation Game,” now usually called “The Turing Test,” in which an interrogator has to determine which of two entities in another room is a person and which is a machine by asking them both questions. In his 1950 paper about this game, Turing…