From Aristotle to Chomsky

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Questions and Answers

Who coined the term "artificial intelligence" and established it as an independent field of study?

  • Aristotle
  • John McCarthy (correct)
  • Leonardo da Vinci
  • Noam Chomsky

Who designed a hypothetical computing machine with 13 registers?

  • Descartes
  • Hobbes
  • Aristotle
  • Leonardo da Vinci (correct)

Who contributed to questions of logical induction and causal reasoning?

  • Hume (correct)
  • Chomsky
  • Descartes
  • Hobbes

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Study Notes

  • Aristotle formalized human thinking and logical conclusions through syllogisms.
  • Leonardo da Vinci designed a hypothetical computing machine with 13 registers.
  • Descartes believed rationality and reason can be defined using principles from mechanics and mathematics.
  • Hobbes identified similarities between human reasoning and computations of machines.
  • Hume contributed to questions of logical induction and causal reasoning.
  • The Dartmouth conference in 1956 coined the term "artificial intelligence" and established AI as an independent field of study.
  • Alan Turing formalized and mechanized rational thought processes and conceptualized the Turing Test.
  • John McCarthy coined the term "artificial intelligence" and established AI as an independent field of study, and invented the programming language Lisp.
  • Marvin Minsky combined insights from AI and cognitive science.
  • Noam Chomsky contributed to the development of AI through formal language theory and the Chomsky hierarchy.

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