RE: The Turing Test and Machine Intelligence (part II)

[lemouth]

Thanks a lot for this second episode, that I enjoyed as much as the first one. I have a couple of comments/remarks, if I may :)

We should clarify that by the time Turing addressed the issue, the term artificial intelligence had not yet been coined, so he was speaking rather of "thinking machines".

I know I could interrogate the web for it, but it is funnier to ask you about it. When has the term “artificial intelligence” been coined for the first time? Do you know?

This disjunction basically tells us that science has not yet deciphered the mystery of consciousness and, therefore, we have no answer to the question posed.

I was about to comment that this was also a question for the quantum world. Can quantum mechanics explain consciousness? And then you of course pre-answer my comment directly in your blog… You well cornered it… This is kind of an active field of research those days. We can find plenty of references online!

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[eniolw]

When has the term “artificial intelligence” been coined for the first time? Do you know?

It was coined by professor John McCarthy in 1956, although the term had to wait longer to take off.

I was about to comment that this was also a question for the quantum world. Can quantum mechanics explain consciousness? And then you of course pre-answer my comment directly in your blog… You well cornered it…

LOL. It's must be like reading a entertaining story, you know.

Thanks for your visit and comments!

[lemouth]

It was coined by professor John McCarthy in 1956, although the term had to wait longer to take off.

Thanks for the clarifications. As always, cool names take some time to take off (if you have time, you may be tented to check out "penguin diagrams" and how they became world famous.

Cheers!

[eniolw]

I will! Thanks.