AI Rookies

Dartmouth Workshop — Dartmouth Conference

Fact

A 1956 meeting where researchers first gave “artificial intelligence” its official name.

In Plain Words

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.

Related Concepts

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.

Neural-network
Dartmouth came before today’s neural-network boom and marks an earlier AI starting point.