On the Origins of Artificial Intelligence
Daniel Ventre · 2020
In this chapter, the authors have the essential elements of artificial intelligence (AI) research: a multidisciplinary approach, bringing together humanities and technology, a university investment and the presence of the military. From the outset, AI has been formed with a multidisciplinary approach, located at the crossroads of a body of research involving multiple scientific disciplines. Dividing the history of AI into several sequences makes it possible to position, within each of them, events, such as the main conflicts that have never ceased to punctuate the history of humanity, political periods and major events, in particular, events in the history of technology. AI is closely associated with robotics. During World War II, unmanned aircraft equipped with explosives and thrown at enemy populations and armies were called “robot bombs”. After the war, other developments were created with industrial applications.