The first programming languages specifically designed for artificial intelligence (AI) were developed in the 1950s and 1960s. Some of the earliest AI languages include:
- Lisp: Lisp (short for “List Processing”) was developed in 1958 by John McCarthy, and is considered to be one of the first AI programming languages. Lisp is a high-level, general-purpose programming language that is widely used in AI applications.
- PROLOG: PROLOG (short for “Programmation en Logique”) was developed in 1972 by Alain Colmerauer, and is a logical programming language that is widely used in AI applications.
- Prodigy: Prodigy was developed in the mid-1960s by Edward Feigenbaum and Joshua Lederberg, and was one of the first AI programming languages to be used for natural language processing.
Overall, these early AI programming languages laid the foundation for the development of more advanced AI technologies and applications in the decades that followed.