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# Major AI news, newest first, page 8

The 353 major or historic events of 1,319 in the log, newest first. Page 8 of 8, 50 events per page, grouped by the day each event happened.

## June 1956, day not recorded

- [Dartmouth Summer Research Project coins 'artificial intelligence'](https://postcutoff.com/e/1956-06-01-dartmouth-workshop/) (Milestones; Dartmouth College; historic). It named the field, set its ambitions, and gathered the people who led AI research for decades. Source: http://jmc.stanford.edu/articles/dartmouth/dartmouth.pdf

## October 1950, day not recorded

- [Alan Turing proposes the 'imitation game' (Turing test)](https://postcutoff.com/e/1950-10-01-turing-computing-machinery-intelligence/) (Research; University of Manchester; historic). The Turing test became the most famous benchmark in AI's popular imagination and framed debates about machine intelligence for 70+ years; LLMs revived the debate in the 2020s. Source: https://doi.org/10.1093/mind/LIX.236.433

## December 1943, day not recorded

- [McCulloch & Pitts publish the first mathematical model of a neural network](https://postcutoff.com/e/1943-12-01-mcculloch-pitts-neuron/) (Research; University of Illinois, University of Chicago; historic). It is the conceptual ancestor of every neural network used today, linking brain science, logic and computation. Source: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02478259

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