The dream of creating a thinking machine is not new. People have imagined artificial minds for centures. In ancient myths, there were stories of mechanical servants and statues that could move and speak. These early ideas showed the human desire to build something that could imitate life.
In the 20th century, the idea became more scientific. In 1950, hte British mathematician Alan Turing asked a famous question: Can machines think? He created the Turing Test, a way to check if a machine can use language so well that people cannot tell it apart from a human.
The official birth of Artificial Intelligence (AI) is usually connected to a conference at Dartmouth College in 1956. A small group of scientists met there and belived that machines could soon learn, solve problems, and even improve themselves. This was the moment when AI became a real field of study.
In the following years, researchers build simple programs that could play chess or solve math problems. These first steps looked small, but they showed that machines could do more than just calculate numbers — they could also «reason» in basic ways.
The journey of AI had only just begun, but the foundation was already set: humans had started to teach machines how to think.
