1956

Dartmouth Conference

A small group of mathematicians and engineers gather at Dartmouth College for a summer workshop, armed with an audacious premise: "every aspect of learning or any other feature of intelligence can in principle be so precisely described that a machine can be made to simulate it." They coin the term "Artificial Intelligence" and launch a field. The optimism is breathtaking — they expect human-level AI within a generation. They're wrong about the timeline, but right about the destination.