Turing, Dartmouth and the Beginnings

Covers the founding period: the idea of the thinking machine, the imitation test, the founding conference, the first programs and research projects, and the formation of the field. Excludes cybernetics and the symbolic school, which belong to 1.3, the mathematical foundations of computation, which belong to 2.4, and the philosophical debate on whether machines can think, which belongs to 2.10.

• 1.3 Cybernetics and Symbolic AI
• 2.4 Information and Complexity
• 2.10 Philosophy of AI

• 1.1 Intellectual Roots and the Pre-Computer Era
• 1.3 Cybernetics and Symbolic AI
• 1.4 Expert Systems
• 1.5 AI Winters
• 1.6 The Statistical Turn
• 1.7 Deep Learning
• 1.8 Foundation and Generative Models
• 1.9 Agentic AI and World Models
• 1.10 Regional Histories and Competing Narratives