Yesterday’s tomorrow today: Turing, Searle and the contested significance of artificial intelligence
JA Morgan · Leeds Beckett Repository (Leeds Beckett University) · 2018
In stating the problem is not new and in drawing attention to Turing and Searle as longstanding sources of key ideas I do not mean to suggest that the history of AI, computing, robotics, animatronics and automata begins with these two.Neologisms may be new but ideas far older.John McCarthy coined the term AI at a conference in 1956.There are 'robots' in the Iliad and actual animatronics of varying degrees of sophistication are scattered throughout history.See Adam Rutherford 'Rise of the Robots: The history of things to come' Radio 4 broadcast Monday 13 th February 2017: