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“A Proposal for the Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial Intelligence” (1955-08-31) states a prediction by John McCarthy, Marvin Minsky, Nathaniel Rochester and Claude Shannon (the proposal's signatories): “a significant advance can be made in one or more of these problems”; horizon as stated: for a summer (a "2 month, 10 man study" during the summer of 1956). The record says nothing about whether the event happened. Copy claim link
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Date 1955-08-31 · event Records dated 1955 → Scope and limits "These problems" are the aims listed in the preceding sentence: making machines use language, form abstractions and concepts, solve kinds of problems now reserved for humans, and improve themselves. The statement is part of the proposal for the summer study.
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A Proposal for the Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial Intelligence (facsimile) ↗ Ray Solomonoff archive (raysolomonoff.com) · 1955-08-31
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Source excerpt “We think that a significant advance can be made in one or more of these problems if a carefully selected group of scientists work on it together for a summer.” Location in source Opening paragraph, last sentence (PDF p. 2, printed page number 2; p. 1 is the title page)
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Source details and check notes Authors J. McCarthy; M. L. Minsky; N. Rochester; C. E. Shannon Version Annotated facsimile of the dated typescript; title page and printed p. 3 inspected by the pre-1996 candidate search. Marginal annotations are excluded. Canonical address Open the canonical source ↗ Accessed 2026-10-06 Language English (en) Archive copy Open archived copy, captured 2025-08-30: A Proposal for the Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial Intelligence (facsimile) ↗ . Captured 25567 days after the recorded publication date. An archive copy shows only what the archive retrieved on 2025-08-30. It does not prove what the page said earlier, and it can differ from the copy checked on 2026-10-06.Attribution McCarthy, Minsky, Rochester and Shannon, Dartmouth proposal (1955), facsimile on raysolomonoff.com. Reuse No open redistribution licence asserted. Bibliographic metadata, editorial paraphrases and short attributed quotations (at most 50 words each). Recheck terms before wider redistribution. Check notes Matched by machine (ligature absent from text layer). The passage was matched in the typeset transcription of the proposal on John McCarthy's Stanford site (jmc.stanford.edu), retrieved 2026-11-05 (SHA-256 58e92ef31c1a…); the source recorded here is the annotated facsimile of the typescript, an image scan. Machine-checked; no human editorial review. primary source Supports the claim
A Proposal for the Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial Intelligence (facsimile) ↗ Ray Solomonoff archive (raysolomonoff.com) · 1955-08-31
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Source excerpt “We propose that a 2 month, 10 man study of artificial intelligence be carried out during the summer of 1956” Location in source Opening paragraph, first sentence (PDF p. 2)
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Source details and check notes Authors J. McCarthy; M. L. Minsky; N. Rochester; C. E. Shannon Version Annotated facsimile of the dated typescript; title page and printed p. 3 inspected by the pre-1996 candidate search. Marginal annotations are excluded. Canonical address Open the canonical source ↗ Accessed 2026-10-06 Language English (en) Archive copy Open archived copy, captured 2025-08-30: A Proposal for the Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial Intelligence (facsimile) ↗ . Captured 25567 days after the recorded publication date. An archive copy shows only what the archive retrieved on 2025-08-30. It does not prove what the page said earlier, and it can differ from the copy checked on 2026-10-06.Attribution McCarthy, Minsky, Rochester and Shannon, Dartmouth proposal (1955), facsimile on raysolomonoff.com. Reuse No open redistribution licence asserted. Bibliographic metadata, editorial paraphrases and short attributed quotations (at most 50 words each). Recheck terms before wider redistribution. Check notes Matched by machine (ligature absent from text layer). The passage was matched in the typeset transcription of the proposal on John McCarthy's Stanford site (jmc.stanford.edu), retrieved 2026-11-05 (SHA-256 58e92ef31c1a…); the source recorded here is the annotated facsimile of the typescript, an image scan. Machine-checked; no human editorial review. Status and meaning Editorial status. Machine-checked . Machines found this record and checked it against its sources; no person accepted it individually. Each evidence record above shows how it was checked.
Relation. The document states a prediction: an event, by a date or within a horizon, in the document’s own words. The record is dated by the document, never by the target date. It documents what the text states and when; it says nothing about whether the event happened, and it implies no agreement or influence.
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