Review of The Question of Artificial Intelligence (Brian Bloomfield, ed., Croom Helm)
John McCarthy’s review of The Question of Artificial Intelligence (Brian Bloomfield, editor; Croom Helm), read on his web pages. Undated: the page footer is a generation stamp of the HTML page, and the review mentions the 1987 Boston conference on AI and law, so it was written after that conference.
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- John McCarthyIn his review of The Question of Artificial Intelligence, McCarthy says that one of his reasons for inventing the term 'artificial intelligence' was to escape association with cybernetics and with Norbert Wiener.Date unknown · Stated in source · Supported Inspect claim & evidence ↗John McCarthy: person page →
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