Who founded the AI Project at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology?

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Artificial intelligence — artificial intelligence Image generated by the Stable Diffusion model from the prompt “the ability of a digital computer or computer-controlled robot to perform tasks commonly associated with intelligent beings,” which is the definition of artificial intelligence in the *Encyclopædia Britannica* article on the subject. Stable Diffusion is trained on a large set of images paired with textual descriptions and uses natural language processing to generate an image.

The AI Project at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology was cofounded in 1959 by John McCarthy and Marvin Minsky.12

The project, which was established to explore the use of computers to model and understand human thought, eventually merged with the Laboratory for Computer Science in 2003 to become the Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL).12