KIDS QUIZ
ROBOTS AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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The man who coined the term “artificial intelligence”.
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An astronaut who created a robot.
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A singer from the 80s.
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -emeritus Stanford Professor John McCarthy in 1955, was defined by him as “the science and engineering of making intelligent machines”.
Detailed explanation-3: -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. He defined it as “the science and engineering of making machines that are smart."
Detailed explanation-4: -ohn McCarthy, father of artificial intelligence, in 2006, five years before his death. Credit: Wikimedia Commons. The future father of artificial intelligence tried to study while also working as a carpenter, fisherman and inventor (he devised a hydraulic orange-squeezer, among other things) to help his family.