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The Dartmouth Bet

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The field was founded on a written bet: that every feature of intelligence can be described precisely enough for a machine to simulate it.

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The 1955 proposal — McCarthy, Minsky, Rochester, Shannon — asked for a ten-person summer study and listed language, abstraction, and self-improvement as targets.

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The bet concerns describability, not any single test or deadline.