The field of AI dates back to Ada Lovelace and Charles Babbage, but to keep this more current and less abstract, I will start this story with MIT and early-day Silicon Valley.
Marvin Minsky (1927–2016) and John McCarthy (1927–2011) founded MIT’s CSAIL Lab1 and are responsible for many of the field’s foundations, including LISP2 and early attempts at …
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