Name the Scholar
The author of "Computing Machinery and Intelligence" (1950)
Who is Alan Turing
The literal meaning of cybernetics (from ancient Greek)
What is "steersman"?
The decade-long (1982-1992) Japanese initiative to build Artificial Intelligence, which eventually failed.
What is the Fifth-Generation Computer Systems?
AI systems ultimately depend on the extraction of this key mineral which is essential for rechargeable batteries powering data infrastructures.
What is lithium?
The university where Artificial Intelligence was first discussed.
What is Dartmouth?
The progenitor of the term "Artificial Intelligence"
Who is John McCarthy?
This mathematician coined the term “cybernetics” in 1948 and defined it as the study of control and communication in animals and machines.
Who is Norbert Wiener?
This Chilean project in the early 1970s used telex machines and a centralized control room to manage the socialist economy in real time, becoming one of the most famous cybernetic experiments outside the United States.
What is Cybersyn?
The computer scientist who argued that some decisions should never be delegated to computers.
Who is Joseph Weizenbaum?
The ancient Chinese divination method that looks eerily similar to contemporary AI.
What is Yijing (I-Ching)?
The father of Expert Systems.
Who is Edward Feigenbaum?
The interdisciplinary series of conferences from the 1940s to the 50s that turned cybernetics into a universal discipline that cut across natural and social sciences.
What are the Macy Conferences?
This Chinese scientist who promoted systems engineering and helped introduce cybernetic thinking into socialist planning, often linking science, management, and national development.
Who is Qian Xuesen?
The very first chatbot from the 60s that simulated a Rogerian therapist.
What is ELIZA?
The acronym for a bundle of of ideologies that some nutjobs in Silicon Valley subscribe to
What is TESCREAL?
The author of the following quote: "a widely held materialist theory of animal life and the inability of this theory to explain the core phenomenon of animal life, consciousness. Insofar as this combination persists, and despite the scientific and technologicaltrans- formations of the last two and a half centuries, we live in the age of Vaucanson."
Who is Jessica Riskin?
The British cybernetician who worked for Salvador Allende between 1970 and 1973.
Who is Stafford Beer?
The Soviet scientist who argued that “artificial intelligence in the literal sense does not exist,” even while promoting AI research in the 1980s.
Who is Germogen Pospelov?
This philosopher who argued that early AI failed because it ignored embodied, intuitive human knowledge.
Who is Hubert Dreyfus?
A term describing how AI systems inherit and amplify social inequalities because they are trained on historical data shaped by those inequalities.
What is "algorithmic bias"?
The author of the following quote: "Technology reveals the active relation of man to nature, the direct process of the production of his life."
Who is Karl Marx?
This concept redefined communication not as meaning but the statistical reduction of uncertainty and helped unify neuroscience, engineering, and social sciences.
What is information (as entropy)?
Who is Kunihiko Fukushima?
the paradoxical belief that complex computational systems appear almost magical or autonomous, even though their outputs are fully determined by predictive models.
What is "enchanted determinism"?
The Chinese American computer scientist from Stanford who led the ImageNet project, creating a massive labeled dataset that helped drive breakthroughs in deep learning.
Who is Fei-fei Li?