What was the significance of the 1956 Dartmouth Workshop in the field of artificial intelligence?

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history of artificial intelligence (AI) British mathematician Alan Turing, c. 1930s. Turing did the earliest work on AI, and he introduced many of the central concepts of AI in a report entitled “Intelligent Machinery” (1948).

The 1956 Dartmouth Workshop was a pivotal event in the history of artificial intelligence (AI). It was here that John McCarthy, along with Marvin Minsky and Claude Shannon, proposed the workshop and coined the term "artificial intelligence." McCarthy defined AI as "the science and engineering of making intelligent machines". This workshop is widely considered the birthplace of AI as a distinct field of research, setting the stage for future developments in the quest to create intelligent machines.1