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zingaryesterday at 10:33 AM1 replyview on HN

That definition moves the goalposts almost by definition, people only stopped thinking that chess demonstrated intelligence when computers started doing it.


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Eufratyesterday at 10:40 AM

The term artificial intelligence has always been just a buzzword designed to sell whatever it needed to. IMHO, it has no meaningful value outside of a good marketing term. John McCarthy is usually the person who is given credit for coming up with the name and he has admitted in interviews that it was just to get eyeballs for funding.