"The 1956 Dartmouth summer research project established an early organized research program for artificial intelligence, making the field roughly 70 years old in 2026."
The original proposal, written in August 1955 and reproduced in AI Magazine in 2006, outlines a summer 1956 investigation of machine intelligence, language, abstraction, problem-solving, and self-improvement. It establishes the historical basis for dating the conventional AI research field to 1956, approximately 70 years before the manuscript's 2026 perspective.
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