Notes • July 13, 2025by johnataylor on TwosFun Fact: On July 13, 1956, the Dartmouth Workshop meets. Sixty-nine years later, it is considered the founding event of artificial intelligence. It has often been referred to as "the Constitutional Convention of AI". The project's four organizers, Claude Shannon, John McCarthy, Nathaniel Rochester and Marvin Minsky, are considered some of the founding fathers of AI.