Event
Events
Turning points: workshops, matches, launches, winters, prizes and laws.
1970s
- The Lighthill Report1973
A UK government review that found AI had not delivered. Funding was cut in Britain and the first AI winter followed.
1960s
- ELIZA, the first chatbot1966
Weizenbaum's pattern-matching therapist. People confided in it. He spent the rest of his career warning about that.
1950s
- Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial Intelligence1956
Eight weeks at Dartmouth College. McCarthy's proposal named the field. The founders of symbolic AI met here.