Artificial Intelligence: past, present, future(s) A brief history of AI A recent discipline Kickoff: 1956 Dartmouth workshop on Artificial Intelligence. “AI is the science and engineering of making intelligent machines.” (John McCarthy) “AI is the science of making machines do things that would require intelligence if done by men.” (Marvin Minsky) Image credits: the Marvin Minsky family High ambitions “Every aspect of learning or any other feature of intelligence can in principle be so precisely described that a machine can be made to simulate it.