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		neepi 8 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: If it works, it's not AI: a commercial look at AI ... The term AI was invented because Claude Shannon was fed up of getting automata papers.

simonw 8 months ago [–]

I thought it was John McCarthy trying to avoid having to use the term "cybernetics".

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