John McCarthy, Marvin Minsky, Nathaniel Rochester, and Claude Shannon organized a two-month workshop at Dartmouth College that officially birthed the field. This conference is the precise historical flashpoint where John McCarthy coined the term “Artificial Intelligence,” separating it permanently from cybernetics and automation.
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