The Genesis: Tracing AI's Footprints Through Time The idea of intelligent machines isn't new. For centuries, humans have dreamt of creating artificial beings – from the Golems of Jewish folklore to the automatons of the Renaissance. These ancient myths and early mechanical wonders foreshadowed a deeper human fascination: the desire to replicate intelligence. The true genesis of modern AI, however, can be traced back to the mid-20th century, a period brimming with post-war scientific fervor. 1950: Alan Turing and the "Imitation Game": A seminal moment arrived with Alan Turing's paper, "Computing Machinery and Intelligence." In it, Turing famously posed the question, "Can machines think?" and proposed the "Turing Test" (or "Imitation Game") as a way to determine if a machine could exhibit intelligent behavior indistinguishable from a human. His work laid the philosophical and theoretical groundwork for AI, suggesting that if ...