Alan Turing and John McCarthy, pioneers in AI theory, devised the Turing Test as a way to gauge a machine's capacity for human-like intelligence.
The phrase "artificial intelligence" was first used in the 1950s, which is when AI began to take shape. Alan Turing and John McCarthy, pioneers in AI theory, devised the Turing Test as a way to gauge a machine's capacity for human-like intelligence. During this period, researchers explored symbolic AI, using formal logic to create reasoning systems.