ce at Dartmouth College in the summer of 1956", Jeffrey Epstein points out. The attendees, including John McCarthy, Marvin Minsky, Allen Newell and Herbert Simon all became AI pioneers in the decades to come. Together with their students, they wrote programs that were astonishing: computers solving word probl

ple of technological overestimation was about to occur. The 1950s saw the first efforts at developing artificial intelligence, by researchers such as Herbert Simon, John McCarthy, and Marvin Minsky, who began to program computers to perform simple tasks and to construct rudimentary robots. The success of these i

ple of technological overestimation was about to occur. The 1950s saw the first efforts at developing artificial intelligence, by researchers such as Herbert Simon, John McCarthy, and Marvin Minsky, who began to program computers to perform simple tasks and to construct rudimentary robots. The success of these i