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The Dartmouth workshop (1956)
The Dartmouth summer workshop names the field "artificial intelligence," the term the United States replaced with Super Intelligence in 2026.
- Date
- 1956
- Type
- Milestone
- Status
- Happened
- Era
- 1956
What happened
The Dartmouth summer workshop names the field "artificial intelligence," the term the United States replaced with Super Intelligence in 2026.
Why it matters
The workshop proposal by John McCarthy, Marvin Minsky, Nathaniel Rochester and Claude Shannon assumed that every feature of intelligence could in principle be described precisely enough for a machine to simulate it. Seventy years later the United States retired the name the workshop gave the field.
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