The history of AI and machine learning

Originally, artificial intelligence aimed to make computers more useful and more capable of reasoning independently. Historians typically attribute the birth of AI to a Dartmouth research project from 1956 that explored mathematical models and problem-solving methods. The field has a long history rooted in military science and statistics, with contributions from philosophy, psychology, math, and cognitive science. It took the United States Department of Defense (USDOD) until the 1960s to get interested in this type of work and to begin training computers to mimic human reasoning. DARPA, for example, completed street mapping projects in the 1970s, and produced intelligent assistants In 2003, long before Google, Amazon, or Microsoft got interested in similar projects. Using this approach, computers could automate and reason in a formalized way.