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Patented: History of Inventions
The Origins of Artificial Intelligence
The term artificial intelligence was coined by an American called John McCarthy in the 1950s. A lot of people very much wish he'd chosen another term because artificial sounds fake and who wants fake intelligence? The idea of being able to get machines that can navigate the human world is a bit like jigsaw puzzle fitting rather than health fitting. I think it literally was shaky. Do you remember shaky the robot? I do, yes. It was a hugely ambitious project at the time to build kind of what we might think of as the dream of AI. They invented a whole bunch of AI technologies in shaky. But one of the really interesting things about it is that it showed just how hard AI in the
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