Prehistory — From Neural Networks to the TransformerJohn McCarthy, Marvin Minsky, Nathaniel Rochester, Claude Shannon
McCarthy, Minsky, Rochester and Shannon write the Dartmouth proposal
Wrote the proposal for the Dartmouth Summer Research Project — the first use of the term "artificial intelligence"
Why it matters
The document that gave the field its name. It led to the workshop the following year, in 1956
Source — Primary sources first; secondary reports are labelled “Press”
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