The turing testAlso known as the imitation game, is a test to determine whether a machine can exhibit intelligent behaviour. It has been discussed extensively in AI Community as a controversial topic, and it appears that it will continue to be controversial. Even today, there is no consensus on the answer to the question Turing posed; "can machines think [3]?" The reference here is to a video clip, illustrating in black and white, the state of AI in the 1960s, in which legendary AI pioneers like Jerome Wiesner, Oliver Selfridge, and Claude Shannon speak. It is amazing to listen to the hyped expectations that are, 60 years later, still to come!
Let there be AI! (Dartmouth Summer School 1956)The term Artificial Intelligence was coined in 1955 by John McCarthy and his colleagues Marvin Minsky (Harvard University), Nathaniel Rochester (IBM), and Claude Shannon (Bell Telephone Laboratories) in the proposal for the funding of "2-month, a 10-man study of Artificial Intelligence. " The workshop took place in the following year, in 1956, which is generally considered as the official birthdate of the new field. In their proposal, the proposers made very ambitious statements such as "(i) the study is to proceed based on the conjecture that 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, (ii) an attempt will be made to find how to make machines use language, form abstractions and concepts, solve kinds of problems now reserved for humans, and improve themselves. "
LISPIn the 1960s, the most popular programming language used in AI research was LISP. McCarthy developed the basic ideas during 1956-1958, and it quickly became a common language for AI programming. The main reason for its popularity was that learning could be incorporated in LISP as self-modifying programs. The popularity of LISP was so high that special computers, so-called "LISP machines, " that could run LISP programs efficiently and effectively swarmed the market. The most notable machine was PDP-10 of Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC). Even I used one in my early years of research!