Who is considered the father of 'Artificial Intelligence'?
- AGeoffrey Hinton
- BSam Altman
- CJohn McCarthy
- DYann LeCun
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Correct answer: (c) John McCarthy
Explanation
John McCarthy (1927–2011), an American computer scientist, is called the father of artificial intelligence. He coined the term "artificial intelligence" for the 1956 Dartmouth conference, which founded the field, and he created the LISP programming language.
- Geoffrey Hinton is known as a "godfather of deep learning". He shared the 2018 Turing Award with Yann LeCun and Yoshua Bengio, and the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics.
- Sam Altman is the chief executive of OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT.