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The 1955 proposal for the Dartmouth summer project on artificial intelligence said an attempt would be made to find how to make machines use language.
Checked against its source on October 17, 2026
In the source's own words
“An attempt will be made to find how to make machines use language, form abstractions and concepts”
A Proposal for the Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial Intelligence, John McCarthy et al., Stanford University, John McCarthy's historical archive, 1955, Opening section of the proposal.
Open the original- What it measures
- The Dartmouth Summer Research Project proposal, dated August 31, 1955, by McCarthy, Minsky, Rochester and Shannon. Its title names artificial intelligence as the subject of the summer study.
- What it does not show
- The proposal states goals. It does not claim that speech recognition was solved, and it does not mention speech recognition. It shows that using language was part of the field's founding agenda.