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Conspiracies about the possibility of conferring some notion of intelligence to objects and equipment have permeated humanity since at least Ancient Greece. Aristotle, one of the most important philosophers of his time, wondered whether it would be possible to “teach” a broom to sweep on its own and thus dispense with the slaves who were assigned to this and other more routine activities.

However, significant advances in the development of Artificial Intelligence only actually occurred throughout the 1940s. At that time, humanity was immersed in the Second World War, so there was a race among countries to develop cutting-edge technologies.

It was during this decade that the English mathematician Alan Turing condensed his ideas on machine learning and Artificial Intelligence in an article entitled “Computational Machinery and Intelligence”, published in 1950. It was in this article that the mathematician introduced the Turing test to the world, at the time called the “imitation game”, which measures the autonomy of robots.

In the 1950s, another important step towards the consolidation of Artificial Intelligence was the development of the Lisp language, created by computer scientist John McCarthy, which became, after its publication in 1960, the most widely used language for programming AI applications. Today, more than 60 years after its publication, Lisp is one of the oldest programming languages ​​still in use.

One of the most publicized developments involving artificial intelligence occurred in 1997. That was when the computer Deep Blue, developed by IBM, won a chess match against the then world champion Garry Kasparov.
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