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70 years ago today, the term Artificial Intelligence was first introduced
John McCarthy proposed a workshop on AI at Dartmouth
70 years ago, on August 31, 1955, the term Artificial Intelligence was first used in a proposal from John McCarthy entitled A Proposal for the Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial...
Posted: August 31, 2025, 2:05 PM
Can AI make Hitler cry?
UMBC professor Aharona Rosenthal has a new paper, Can AI make Hitler cry?, exploring the use of AI in Holocaust education across four generations in Spinger’s AI and Ethics journal. The paper...
Posted: August 18, 2025, 10:36 AM
World's first chatbot restored on the world's first time-sharing system
Original ELIZA code runs in CTSS emulator on Linux/MacOS
MIT professor Joseph Weizenbaum created ELIZA in 1966 partly to demonstrate how easy it was to convince people that a computer was intelligent. His original MAD-SLIP version of ELIZA, usually...
Posted: December 28, 2024, 12:16 PM