John McCarthy on AI
5 quotes from John McCarthy on the wall, 1959 to 1983, newest first. Each one is verbatim and links to where it was said. Sources include Psychology Today, SIGART Newsletter; author's Stanford page, Artificial Intelligence (journal); author's Stanford page.
- 1983
It does not believe that it is a thermostat
McCarthy, an AI pioneer at Stanford University, argued in this 1983 popular article that ascribing simple mental states to machines can be useful, using the thermostat of an electric blanket as his example.
Just three possible thoughts or beliefs
McCarthy, professor of computer science at Stanford University, on what it means to say a machine believes something, using a blanket thermostat as example, in a 1983 article for general readers.
- 1976
The 1960s technology of moralistic invective
Stanford AI researcher John McCarthy reviewed Joseph Weizenbaum's 1975 book Computer Power and Human Reason in the SIGART Newsletter in 1976, answering its moral critique of artificial intelligence research.
SIGART Newsletter; author's Stanford pageAn Unreasonable Book
- 1974
Lighthill had his shot at AI and missed
John McCarthy, Stanford AI pioneer, reviewed James Lighthill's 1973 report to the UK Science Research Council, which led to cuts in British AI funding. The review appeared in the journal Artificial Intelligence in 1974.
- 1959
Programs that learn from their experience as effectively as humans do
John McCarthy, then at MIT and coiner of the term artificial intelligence, proposed the advice taker program in this paper for the Teddington symposium on the mechanisation of thought processes, November 1958, published 1959.
Mechanisation of Thought Processes, Her Majesty's Stationery OfficePrograms with Common Sense
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Quotes by others that refer to John McCarthy
Belongs in the Journal of Half-Baked Ideas
Yehoshua Bar-Hillel, logician at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, responding to John McCarthy's advice taker paper "Programs with Common Sense" at the Teddington symposium of the National Physical Laboratory, November 1958.