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I often place "Artificial Intelligence" in quotations because the cultural meaning ascribed to it is not the traditional meaning. AI could have a number of pages in the dictionary because of the many meanings it has been assigned. Automatons and robots with intelligence surpassing humans has been a tale as old as humanity itself. Talos the Bronze giant of Crete could be an example, judging those who would attack his island. It could also have started more literally in 1956 at Dartmouth college where the college first declared their program for artifical intelligence studies. I will note that they believed they could make a "general intelligence surpassing human intelligence within the decade"... Sound familiar?

I like to trace the origins a bit further, to the father of the modern field of Computer Science, Alan Turing. He invented one of the first computers, the Turing Machine, which was capable of making independent decisions based on a set of rules and a tape of input. You could see why I see this as the beginnings of AI.