The document summarizes the history and development of artificial intelligence from its early beginnings in the 1950s through the present day. It traces influences from various fields like philosophy, mathematics, psychology and economics. Key events and eras discussed include the Dartmouth workshop in 1956, the rise of expert systems in the 1960s-70s, the AI winter of the late 1980s, and the modern focus on data-driven machine learning approaches like deep learning.