KEY LEARNINGS
- The 1956 Dartmouth Workshop launched AI as a formal field with optimistic but unrealistic timelines.
- AI Winters occurred when inflated expectations met disappointing results, causing funding to collapse.
- Deep Blue (1997) and AlphaGo (2016) demonstrated AI mastery in narrow domains once thought impossible.
- ChatGPT (2022) democratized AI access, shifting governance from lab experiments to mass deployment.
- Effective governance must balance current risks against uncertain future capabilities.
- 🌐Dartmouth AI Conference: The Next Fifty YearsDartmouth's retrospective on the founding conference.
- 🌐Computer History Museum: AI TimelineInteractive timeline of AI milestones.
- 🎥DeepMind: AlphaGo DocumentaryDocumentary on the historic Go match.
- McCarthy, J., et al. (1955). A Proposal for the Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial Intelligence.
- Lighthill, J. (1973). Artificial Intelligence: A General Survey. Science Research Council.
- Silver, D., et al. (2017). Mastering the game of Go without human knowledge. Nature.
