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What Is Artificial Intelligence?
In this chapter:
Recognizing key limitations
In 1955, Dartmouth professor John McCarthy coined the term artificial intelligence (AI for short) as part of an academic grant to assemble the first AI conference—the Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial Intelligence in 1956. The goal of this conference was to get computers to behave in ways that humans would identify as intelligent.
At the time, computers were taking up whole floors in office buildings, ...
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