What is the history of AI? The term “artificial intelligence” wascoined in 1956by computer scientist John McCarthy for a workshop at Dartmouth. But he wasn’t the first to write about the concepts we now describe as AI. Alan Turing introduced the concept of the “imitation game” in a...
AI is always on, available around the clock, and delivers consistent performance every time. Tools such as AI chatbots or virtual assistants can lighten staffing demands for customer service or support. In other applications—such as materials processing or production lines—AI can help maintain con...
AI is always on, available around the clock, and delivers consistent performance every time. Tools such as AI chatbots or virtual assistants can lighten staffing demands for customer service or support. In other applications—such as materials processing or production lines—AI can help maintain con...
As this technology moves from prototype to product faster and faster, these have become questions for all of us. But (spoilers!) I don’t have the answers. I can’t even tell you what AI is. The people making it don’t know what AI is either. Not really. “These are the kinds of...
At the 1956 Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial Intelligence, co-host John McCarthy introduced the phraseartificial intelligenceand helped incubate an organized community of AI researchers. Often AI hype outpaced the actual capacities of anything those researchers could create. But in the la...
In 1956, John McCarthy and Marvin Minsky hosted the Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial Intelligence, during which the termartificial intelligencewas coined and introduced, and the race for practical ways of realizing the old dream began in earnest. The next five decades would see AI ...
Stanford researcher John McCarthy coined the term in 1956 during what is now called The Dartmouth Conference, where the core mission of the AI field was defined. If we start with this definition, any program can be considered AI if it does something that we would normally think of as intell...
In this McKinsey Explainer, we define what is generative AI, look at gen AI such as ChatGPT and explore recent breakthroughs in the field.
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The term “Artificial Intelligence” was coined by computer scientist John McCarthy at the Dartmouth Conference of 1956. A couple of years later, the first artificial neural network (a type of AI that mimics how the human brain works), “Perceptron Mark I,” was built. [3] Please accept ...