Several historical milestones have contributed to the evolution of AI.
Several historical milestones have contributed to the evolution of AI. In 1956, the Dartmouth Conference in New Hampshire saw the emergence of artificial intelligence as a formal area of research. At the conference, various founders of AI, such as Marvin Minsky, John McCarthy, and Claude Shannon, proposed creating intelligent machines through program design. Another milestone happened in 1997, when IBM's Deep Blue supercomputer defeated world chess champion Garry Kasparov. The win was regarded as a significant breakthrough in AI, which came from its ability to excel in a strategy-based game such as chess.