The Golden Age of AI (1956–1974) began with extraordinary optimism because early computers could perform tasks requiring intelligence—mathematics, planning, game-playing—in ways humans found impressive; this led researchers to adopt a 'divide and conquer' strategy of decomposing intelligence into separate faculties and building systems for each.
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Michael WaldridgeEvidence Quote
“by the end of the 1950s we've got machines that can show the rudiments of intelligence that can that can plan that can do mathematics which to be frank you know would be above the typical level of the people on the street”
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Don’t Believe AI Hype, This is Where it’s Actually Headed | Oxford’s Michael Wooldridge | AI History— Johnathan BiCreated: 8/11/2026, 7:08:35 AM
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