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History of artificial intelligence
→Turing Test: Ferranti is covered in the next section. Let's not quibble about the "birth of AI". This article considers the "birth of AI" the founding of the academic field with the name "artificial intellligence", which is the point of view of the majority of the most reliable sources. Certainly there were experiments (Ferranti, Grey), speculation and philosophy (Leibniz, Turing, J.C.Licklidder, sci fi), and theoretical advances (Pitts & McCullough) before that date, but ...
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History of artificial intelligence
Alan Turing work on the subject is historically important, widely discussed in the years since. However, he did not write programs or develop AI technology. His work is a very important part of the philosophy of AI, a field which also has roots in Liebniz and many others, all of which is in the article. We don't need to mention him in the lede.