The Man Who Invented AGI
Everyone is obsessed with Artificial General Intelligence—the stage when AI can match all feats of human cognition. The guy who named it saw it as a threat. View in browser | Update preferences ■ In this week's Backchannel : Everyone is obsessed with AGI—here's where it started. Also: The OG of AI, and whether others will follow OpenAI's tortured journey toward becoming more corporate. I will accept the credit for the first citation and give them credit for a lot of other work that I didn't do, and maybe should have." In the summer of 1956, a group of academics—now we'd call them computer scientists but there was no such thing then—met on Dartmouth College campus in New Hampshire to discuss how to make machines think like humans. One of them, John McCarthy, coined the term "artificial intelligence." This legendary meeting and the naming of a new field, is well known. In this century, a variation of the term has stepped to the ...
