Shortly after, in 1956, computer scientist John McCarthy instigated the Dartmouth Conference, an organized event aimed at moving forward serious scientific development of AI. His proposal summed ...

"In my mind, Google is all about artificial intelligence…what John McCarthy stood for matters,” he said. McCarthy was the son of a union organizer, also John McCarthy, who had left the little ...

But John McCarthy -- the man who coined the term and pioneered the field of AI research -- didn't see it that way. As far back as the mid-60s, chess was called the "Drosophila of artificial ...