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The term "artificial intelligence" started out in academia in 1956. Science fiction started using that language later.



I'm not concerned with who used what and when. I'm talking about what people expect of AI. When you tell people that you're trying to create digital intelligence, they'll inevitably compare it to people. That's the expectation.


The term AI was invented because Claude Shannon was fed up of getting automata papers.


I thought it was John McCarthy trying to avoid having to use the term "cybernetics".




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