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What is AI: History

Watch the video above where Marcus answering this question, when was the first AI application?

The generally agreed to be the first work on AI​ was in 1943 by Warren McCulloch and Walter Pitts, when they combines three concepts​:

The three concepts:

  • The function of neurons in the brain​

  • Formal analysis of logic​

  • Programming theory of Turing​

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