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According to the Lawrence Livermore page on the birth of artificial intelligence:

In 1956, two years after the death of Turing, John McCarthy, a professor at Dartmouth College, organized a summer workshop to clarify and develop ideas about thinking machines — choosing the name “artificial intelligence” for the project.

Meaning somewhere after that 1956 summer workshop, some science fiction author added the term to science fiction for the first time.

What was the first story to use the term "artificial intelligence"?

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    I thought I had the right source for your quote, but it wasn't from the wikipedia article. Can you please link to a proper source and not aGoogle search result? If you're quoting something, it should be properly attributed Commented yesterday

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The 1951 Captain Future story "Moon of the Unforgotten" by Edmond Hamilton (Startling Stories, January 1951) describes Captain Future's robot companion Grag as having an "artificial intelligence:"

Grag, the towering manlike giant who bore in his metal frame the strength of an army and an artificial intelligence equal to the human, rumbled a question in his deep booming voice. But Curt Newton only vaguely heard him. His gaze had followed Joan's out into the alien night.

Technovelgy suggests that this appears to be the earliest usage of the term in the modern sense.

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    Meaning "The term "artificial intelligence" was coined by John McCarthy in 1955 and was used to define a 1956 summer workshop at Dartmouth College that is considered the birth of AI as a research field" is all BS Commented yesterday
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    Google Books also has a short snippet from a magazine called "The Paper Industry and Paper World." It's hard for me to tell whether it is genuine, but it has the date of "January, 1947" at the bottom of the page, which makes it less likely to be one of the many misdated books, and says "This research into artificial intelligence has resulted in a machine known as 'Ace' capable of solving mathematical problems in a matter of seconds...." Commented yesterday
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    Mind you, it looks like hype running ahead of reality is nothing new! The ACE that existed in 1947 was just a bunch of schematics and circuit diagrams that Turing had said would be able to solve mathematical problems quickly, and it was never built: rather, a smaller, less complicated "Pilot ACE" was completed a few years later. Commented yesterday
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    @Pablo - Mecha-Hitler says a lot of things. Commented yesterday
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    @Pablo Not necessarily. "Coined" in that context usually means it's the first research paper that uses the term, and is cited in turn. Just because something was said in a sci-fi story doesn't invalidate that. Please don't learn from Grok. Commented yesterday

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