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A Proposal for the Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial Intelligence
John McCarthy et al., Stanford University, John McCarthy's historical archive, 1955
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- What it is
- The August 1955 proposal for a summer research project on artificial intelligence at Dartmouth College. It lists the problems the project would study, including how to make machines use language.
- How much weight it carries
- The original proposal, reproduced by the author's own archive at Stanford. It is a statement of research goals, not a report of results, and the field's later history departs from many of its predictions.
Facts taken from this source
- 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.
“An attempt will be made to find how to make machines use language, form abstractions and concepts” (Opening section of the proposal)