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A Poor Choice of Words in 1955: Why "Artificial Intelligence" is what we're selling, and "Machine Agency" is what we're avoiding

Image Source: ChatGPT - Original Art, Full Credit to “It” (2024) By Dr. Mayank ‘Rocky’ Verma CEO, Kaipability Ltd With Claude (Anthropic) — a machine agency, not an artificial intelligence In 1955, John McCarthy needed a name. He was writing a proposal to the Rockefeller Foundation for a summer workshop at Dartmouth College — ten men, two months, an attempt to crack the problem of making machines think. He chose “Artificial Intelligence.” It was, by his own admission, a branding exercise: catchy enough to attract funding and prestigious enough to differentiate his project from Norbert…

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