In the summer of 1956, a group of researchers convened at Dartmouth College for a workshop that would lay the foundation for the field of artificial intelligence. Organized by John McCarthy, Marvin Minsky, Nathaniel Rochester, and Claude Shannon, the Dartmouth Conference was pivotal in coining the term ‘artificial intelligence.’ The attendees proposed that ’every aspect of learning or any other feature of intelligence can in principle be so precisely described that a machine can be made to simulate it.’ This vision set the stage for AI research, inspiring decades of exploration into machine learning, natural language processing, and more.