Who is known as the 'Father of Artificial Intelligence'?

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Correct — B, John McCarthy. He coined the term 'Artificial Intelligence' in 1955 and organized the 1956 Dartmouth Conference, the event widely regarded as the founding moment of AI as an academic field. He later created the LISP programming language, foundational to early AI research.

Why the other options are wrong — (a) Turing pioneered machine-intelligence theory with the Turing Test (1950) and is often called the 'father of computer science,' but it was McCarthy who coined the actual term 'Artificial Intelligence' — the specific fact this question tests.  (c) A 17th-century mathematician who built an early mechanical calculator (the Pascaline); centuries before AI existed as a concept.  (d) Not a person — it is the college/conference (Dartmouth Conference, 1956) where McCarthy proposed the term, not itself a candidate for 'father of AI'.

Concept: John McCarthy, a computer scientist, coined the term 'Artificial Intelligence' in 1955 and organized the 1956 Dartmouth Summer Research Conference, which formally launched AI as a distinct academic discipline. He went on to develop the LISP programming language (1958), long a primary tool for AI research.

State PCS 2022 Q46 — Science & Technology PYQ with Answer

State PCS 2022 Q46 — Science & Technology PYQ with Answer