History of Artificial Intelligence
Anthony Chang
Abstract
The fascinating origin of artificial intelligence (AI) started with the ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle with his syllogisms and others such as Thomas Bayes, George Boole, and Charles Babbage. It was Alan Turing, however, who would be considered perhaps the progenitor of AI with his brilliant solving of the Enigma. The Dartmouth conference in 1956 also contributed significantly to the birth of AI. Another significant advance was the perceptron as proposed by Frank Rosenblatt. Key epochs include the good old fashioned AI and the computational intelligence periods with two AI winters. Rule-based expert systems such as MYCIN was followed by advances in machine and deep learning that culminated in the deployment of cognitive computing in Jeopardy! and deep reinforcement learning in the game Go.