We are all more or less familiar with artificial intelligence technology. Those who think they have not used this tool yet are also using this technology without their knowledge. When you are looking at Facebook, the artificial intelligence system of the Facebook app collects and shows you the topics of your interest in an instant. In other words, this technology surrounds you without your knowledge. Although artificial intelligence is currently used in various fields, who was the first to use this technology? Who showed the world that machines can also perform intellectual work? You may have heard the names of Walter Harry Pitts and Alan Turing. These two are the heroes of the story of the beginning of artificial intelligence. They first gave the idea of artificial intelligence in 1943. They also did some basic theoretical work. But who really made such a machine and amazed the world? To get the answer to this question, we have to go back a little.
In the summer of 1958, a wind of change was blowing around the world. Only three years ago, World War II ended. The damage caused after the war is being felt all over the world. Even though the war had stopped, a cold war had begun between the Soviet Union and the United States. They were busy proving to each other who was ahead of whom, especially in the world of technology. Just a year ago, the Soviet Union had shocked the whole world by launching Sputnik. The United States, on the other hand, was trying to convince the world that they were not lagging behind either. In that context, US President Eisenhower established the space research agency NASA. Along with this, computer technology was also advancing at the same pace. The first computer, ENIAC, was built at the University of Pennsylvania in the United States. At that time, the competition to build computers commercially also began.
