Artificial Intelligence (1, #114)

Thousands of years ago, Western, Indian, Chinese, and Greek philosophers proposed making machines and computers smarter. These philosophers attempted to characterize human thought as a symbolic system.

Their efforts saw some light when, in the 1940s, their line of thought led to the discovery of a machine based on the intellectual principle of mathematical reasoning. The programmable digital computer was the machine in question. The invention quickly inspired scientists all over the world, m...