How different would we think about artificial intelligence if AI pioneers Allen Newell and Herbert Simon had won support for the seemingly less hype-prone term of "complex information processing," rather than "artificial intelligence," which was ultimately adopted by the field? On the surface, this thought experiment is interesting because it asks if artificial intelligence is intrinsically hyped. That is, is the word alone enough to get us in trouble? This was the focus of a recent Wall Street Journal article where columnist Christopher Mims asks experts in artificial intelligence whether the name alone produces confusion and hype? Mims quotes Melanie Mitchell, a professor at the Santa Fe Institute, who quips, "What would the world be like if it [AI] was called that [complex information processing] instead?"

How different would we think about artificial intelligence if AI pioneers Allen Newell and Herbert Simon had won support for the seemingly less hype-prone term of "complex information processing," rather than "artificial intelligence," which was ultimately adopted by the field? On the surface, this thought experiment is interesting because it asks if artificial intelligence is intrinsically hyped. That is, is the word alone enough to get us in trouble? This was the focus of a recent Wall Street Journal article where columnist Christopher Mims asks experts in artificial intelligence whether the name alone produces confusion and hype? Mims quotes Melanie Mitchell, a professor at the Santa Fe Institute, who quips, "What would the world be like if it [AI] was called that [complex information processing] instead?"

So what are we gonna talk about this time? Last time, we saw many examples of how the work in AI had been going on from centuries, like Aristotle in 300 BC or George Boole in the 19th century. But, if you were to go back in time to that part of the history, you would see that there wasn't any field called Artificial Intelligence. Only in the summer of 1956 at Dartmouth College, Hanover(USA), did some sort of formalization start happening. This incident stoked the fire which ultimately decided the course of a field very disorganized at that point in time.