Even after reading through Shannon's Wikipedia article, and searching it for "artificial intelligence" and "1950" I have no idea what you're talking about. It

Even after reading through Shannon's Wikipedia article, and searching it for "artificial intelligence" and "1950" I have no idea what you're talking about. It appears as if Shannon created a maze-solving robot mouse with memory, and also published the basic idea for computer chess around that time. Both ideas seem fundamentally sound. And even if he had somehow been wrong on something at that stage in his life, he had basically created the science of communication single-handedly long before. Plus some minor work in cryptography.