history of AI

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Although it is possible to trace the history of AI three thousand years back to the foundations of logic, or to Lovelace, Ada's commentary on Babbage, Charles’s Analytical Engine in the 19th century, the modern origins of A are usually sen in the work of Alan Turing and the coining of the term at the Dartmouth Workshop in 1956. One major theme has been the move from a focus on symbolic AI in the early days to the succes of sub-symbolic AI, especially neural networks in the more recent past; althoigh the two may need to work more closely togeter for the next wave of AI, for exmaple in neurosymbolic AI systems. Anther major lens on AI hstiry is as a series of peaks of excitemnt interspersed with AI Winters; although if one looks more closely at the 'winters' there was much activity both theoretical and practical, rather like the rich scholarly activity during the Dark Ages.

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Also known as history