The meaning of artificial intelligence was first proposed by a scientist in 1950, and at the same time a test model of machine intelligence was proposed Who is this scientist?

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Options

• AMinsky
• BZade
• CTuring
• DVon Neumann

• A
  14% (5)
• B
  3% (1)
• C
  78% (28)
• D
  6% (2)

Explanation

Alan Turing (option C) is correct because in his landmark 1950 paper "Computing Machinery and Intelligence," he both coined the conceptual groundwork for artificial intelligence and introduced the Turing Test - a model for evaluating machine intelligence by whether a machine's responses are indistinguishable from a human's.

• A. Minsky is wrong - Marvin Minsky was a pioneer of AI (co-founded MIT's AI lab in 1959), but he came after Turing's 1950 proposal.
• B. Zade (Lotfi Zadeh) is wrong - he is known for fuzzy logic (1965), a different branch of computer science entirely.
• D. Von Neumann is wrong - John von Neumann revolutionized computer architecture, but is not associated with defining machine intelligence or proposing a test for it.

Memory tip: Think "Turing Test, 1950" - the alliteration of "Turing Test" links the man directly to the test, and the round number 1950 is easy to anchor to "the halfway point of the 20th century."

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