It is 50 years since AI became a mainstream concept for the first time – in the form of a Hollywood film. In 1968, director Stanley Kubrick had the HAL 9000 supercomputer take control of the spaceship in his science fiction epic “2001: A Space Odyssey”. A machine that’s more intelligent than humans?
As an academic discipline, AI was 12 years old when the film was released, having arrived at renowned Dartmouth College, in New Hampshire USA, in July 1956. That’s when a group of…
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