A 1956 meeting where researchers first gave “artificial intelligence” its official name.
Dartmouth was AI’s big name tag. It put the brainy lunch-table crowd under one club-room sign.
In 1956, this meeting gave the field its name. It helped AI become an organized research field.
Turing-test
Dartmouth built on early machine intelligence ideas and pushed them into a field.
AGI
The dream of general intelligence was already there, and later people called it AGI.
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Dartmouth came before today’s neural-network boom and marks an earlier AI starting point.