meh. "intelligence" and "artificial intelligence" are marketing terms. According to Nils Nilsson, McCarthy and Minsky picked the term so the Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial Intelligence would not be constrained by associations with "Cybernetics." McCarthy thought it (Cybernetics) too constrained because a: it traditionally focused on analog solutions and b: he thought Norbert Wiener was a bit pushy.
I asked Minsky about this a couple decades ago and it was the only time he didn't tell me I was asking a stupid question. Apparently, after the conference, the name stuck because they found it easier to get research grants with the more "neutral" sounding name.
I wonder how many people would trust "AI" if it was called "distributed indexing" or "stochastic generation."
I asked Minsky about this a couple decades ago and it was the only time he didn't tell me I was asking a stupid question. Apparently, after the conference, the name stuck because they found it easier to get research grants with the more "neutral" sounding name.
I wonder how many people would trust "AI" if it was called "distributed indexing" or "stochastic generation."