Field of computer science devoted to machines that perform…

Field of computer science devoted to machines that perform tasks normally requiring human thought, such as reasoning, learning, recognising images and understanding language. The term was coined for a 1956 workshop at Dartmouth College, six years after Alan Turing asked whether machines could think. After cycles of hype and disappointment, deep learning with neural networks transformed the field in the 2010s, and chatbots such as ChatGPT popularised it from 2022.

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