AP BIOLOGY

THE HUMAN IMMUNE SYSTEM

AIDS

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Who is the “father” of artificial intelligence?
A
Fisher Ada
B
John McCarthy
C
Allen Newell
D
Alan Turning
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -John McCarthy was one of the most influential people in the field. He is known as the “father of artificial intelligence” because of his fantastic work in Computer Science and AI. McCarthy coined the term “artificial intelligence” in the 1950s.

Detailed explanation-2: -He coined the term “Artificial Intelligence, ” invented the first programming language for symbolic computation, LISP (which is still used as a preferred language in the field of AI), and invented and established time-sharing. Human-level AI and commonsense reasoning were two of his major contributions.

Detailed explanation-3: -McCarthy was a pioneer in the fields of artificial intelligence (AI), computer science, and interactive computing systems. McCarthy coined the term “AI” in 1955 in connection with a proposed summer workshop at Dartmouth College, which many of the world’s leading thinkers in computing attended.

Detailed explanation-4: -John McCarthy, (born September 4, 1927, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.-died October 24, 2011, Stanford, California), American mathematician and computer scientist who was a pioneer in the field of artificial intelligence (AI); his main research in the field involved the formalization of commonsense knowledge.

Detailed explanation-5: -Dabbala Rajagopal “Raj” Reddy (born 13 June 1937) is an Indian-born American computer scientist and a winner of the Turing Award. He is one of the early pioneers of artificial intelligence and has served on the faculty of Stanford and Carnegie Mellon for over 50 years.

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