Dr Ruwan M. Jayathunga

Artificial intelligence (AI) today permeates almost every sphere of modern life, from finance and defence to education and healthcare. While its recent explosion has captured global attention, the roots of AI stretch back several decades. The intellectual groundwork was laid in 1950, when British mathematician Alan Turing posed a revolutionary question in his paper “Computing Machinery and Intelligence”: Can machines think? A few years later, in 1955, computer scientist John McCarthy formally co