In the mid-1950s mathematician John McCarthy issued a call for research on “Automata Studies,” but the phrase was so bland that few people understood what he meant. So he came up with a more provocative description of the idea he was promoting.
He called it artificial intelligence.
via John McCarthy, the father of artificial intelligence, dies at 84 – latimes.com.
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