Artificial Intelligence (AI) is about 70 years old as a formal field, officially "born" at the 1956 Dartmouth Workshop where the term was coined, but its conceptual roots go back to the 1940s with early neural networks and the 1950 Turing Test, while foundational ideas of thinking machines emerged centuries earlier. So, depending on how you measure, AI is a field from the mid-50s, but its theoretical journey began much earlier, with significant growth in recent decades.
