{"id":89,"date":"2025-04-30T13:20:56","date_gmt":"2025-04-30T17:20:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/aidimmensionsanddilemmas\/?p=89"},"modified":"2025-04-30T13:20:56","modified_gmt":"2025-04-30T17:20:56","slug":"where-did-the-term-artificial-intelligence-come-from","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/aidimmensionsanddilemmas\/2025\/04\/30\/where-did-the-term-artificial-intelligence-come-from\/","title":{"rendered":"Where Did the Term &#8220;Artificial Intelligence&#8221; Come From?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>As we know, Alan Turing first posed the question &#8220;can machines think?&#8221; But, where did the term &#8220;AI&#8221; come from? In 1956, two years after the death of Turing, John McCarthy had organized a summer workshop at Dartmouth College to analyze and develop ideas on machine learning &#8211; calling the workshop &#8220;artificial intelligence&#8221; and is considered to be the founding moment of AI. Not long after, by the mid-1960s, AI research quickly grew and was funded by the Department of Defense and AI labs have been developed around the country. Since then, AI has developed into a field of research and  is now a leading technological paradigm of all things autonomous. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/st.llnl.gov\/news\/look-back\/birth-artificial-intelligence-ai-research\">https:\/\/st.llnl.gov\/news\/look-back\/birth-artificial-intelligence-ai-research<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As we know, Alan Turing first posed the question &#8220;can machines think?&#8221; But, where did the term &#8220;AI&#8221; come from? In 1956, two years after the death of Turing, John McCarthy had organized a summer workshop at Dartmouth College to analyze and develop ideas on machine learning &#8211; calling the workshop &#8220;artificial intelligence&#8221; and is&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37015,"featured_media":90,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-historical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/aidimmensionsanddilemmas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/aidimmensionsanddilemmas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/aidimmensionsanddilemmas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/aidimmensionsanddilemmas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37015"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/aidimmensionsanddilemmas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/aidimmensionsanddilemmas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/aidimmensionsanddilemmas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89\/revisions\/91"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/aidimmensionsanddilemmas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/aidimmensionsanddilemmas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/aidimmensionsanddilemmas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/aidimmensionsanddilemmas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}