[Ads-l] Antedating of "Artificial Intelligence"

[Bill Mullins]

Fred -- I vaguely recall sending this.  I can't find the email where I sent it to Jesse, but on the Research Details note for the sfdictionary entry it confirms I sent it in.  The most recent change is 8/2021, which is consistent with when I think I sent it to him.

I probably did find it in Internet Archive, but it is possible I found it in the IEEE database of technical journals or some other technical database.





>
> I was the one who contributed the 1955 citation for "artificial intelligence" to
> OED, many years ago.  Since then I have tried hard to antedate that, but with
> such lack of success that I felt it was probably hopeless to find anything pre-
> 1955.  As a result, when I was giving it one more stab and I found the 1951
> science-fictional citation I didn't bother to check the Historical Dictionary of
> Science Fiction.  Great find, Bill, did you get that from searching Internet
> Archive or through some other means ?
>
> Fred Shapiro
>
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> > Bill Mullins wrote:
> > I sent this to Jesse's SFdictionary.com some time ago, but neglected to send it
> to the OED or the list here.
> >


>
> Great work Bill and Fred. The 1951 citation is intriguing because traditionally
> John McCarthy has received credit for naming the field of artificial intelligence.
> The OED has this citation:
>
> 1955   J. McCarthy et al. 31 Aug. (title)    A proposal for the
> Dartmouth summer research project on artificial intelligence.
>
> I guess McCarthy should still receive credit for naming the field, but E. Hamilton
> first applied the term to a fictional robot.
>
> Garson
>

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