[HN Gopher] A Proposal for the Dartmouth Research Project on Art... ___________________________________________________________________ A Proposal for the Dartmouth Research Project on Artificial Intelligence (1955) Author : benbreen Score : 31 points Date : 2021-08-14 06:29 UTC (16 hours ago) (HTM) web link (www-formal.stanford.edu) (TXT) w3m dump (www-formal.stanford.edu) | pomian wrote: | Reading the list of attendees to the conference, is an | interesting glimpse into computing history. | ghaff wrote: | To me, an interesting bit of trivia is that Cognitive Science had | its own introductory moment just a few months later at MIT with | some overlapping attendance. This is particularly of note if you | aren't of the school of thought that AI ~ ML. But cognitive | science hasn't had its own equivalent period of rapid advance. | | http://mechanism.ucsd.edu/~bill/teaching/w07/philpsych/becht... | TMWNN wrote: | Did this lead to DTSS | (<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dartmouth_Time_Sharing_System>) | (and, thus, BASIC)? | ghaff wrote: | Short answer is probably not really. McCarthy was at Dartmouth | _very_ briefly which happened to overlap this conference. He | moved on to MIT and then Stanford. | | John Kemeny was recently in Dartmouth's math department at the | time but AFAIK there was very little interaction with the early | AI work. | andyxor wrote: | > 3. how can a set of (hypothetical) neurons be arranged so as to | form concepts. | | > 6. machine methods of forming abstractions from sensory and | other data. | | Still unsolved after 66 years, the problem indeed "needs more | theoretical work". | | Working on these at the same time with designing computer and | compiler (1 & 2) probably was a big distraction. | | Another distraction is introducing 5 & 7 ("self-improvement" and | "randomness & creativity") before answering more fundamental | questions of knowledge representation (3 & 6). | | Kind of like building algorithms before figuring out the details | of data structures. | varjag wrote: | I feel the context has to be emphasized here. FORTRAN won't | appear until a year later and LISP for all three. It was no | distraction: it was so early that much of CS and computing | history branches out from that event. | andyxor wrote: | yes, that project was so influential in developing computer | science, it determined almost all subsequent AI efforts from | symbolic AI to the recent revival of ANNs. | | Those influential 1950s seminars contributed to the current | treatment of AI as a subset of CS instead of independent | discipline with roots in cognition and neuroscience research. | | but with all due respect you can't really talk about | artificial intelligence before understanding intelligence | taoothereporter wrote: | Page not found | DonaldFisk wrote: | I get "Page not found". | | Archived copy: | https://web.archive.org/web/20210520010546/https://www-forma... ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2021-08-14 23:00 UTC)