A Proposal for the Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial Intelligence

In 1955, four computer scientists wrote the following proposal for a workshop to lay groundwork for Artificial Intelligence. This workshop is considered to be the founding event of AI as a field. Ideas from this proposal remain highly relevant to the day.

Yellow highlights/annotations are my own. You can disable them. I also added side notes with my thoughts and the connections I could trace to the more modern AI ideas.