John McCarthy
AI pioneer; co-founded Stanford/AI Lab; authored early visions like 'Programs with Common Sense'.
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Stanford CS547 HCI Seminar | Winter 2026 | What's Up with AI?
Stanford Online
AI pioneer; co-founded Stanford/AI Lab; authored early visions like 'Programs with Common Sense'.
Douglas Lenat: Cyc and the Quest to Solve Common Sense Reasoning in AI | Lex Fridman Podcast #221
Lex Fridman
The inventor of Lisp, who aimed to create a programming language based on logic, aligning with Cyc's approach to knowledge representation.
Donald Knuth: Programming, Algorithms, Hard Problems & the Game of Life | Lex Fridman Podcast #219
Lex Fridman
A pioneering computer scientist and AI researcher, whom Knuth suggests would be unimpressed by philosophical statements about consciousness due to his focus on concrete problems.
Michael I. Jordan: Machine Learning, Recommender Systems, and Future of AI | Lex Fridman Podcast #74
Lex Fridman
Coined the term 'Artificial Intelligence' as a philosophical aspiration, distinct from cybernetics.
Ray Kurzweil: Future of Intelligence | MIT 6.S099: Artificial General Intelligence (AGI)
Lex Fridman
Co-founder of the AI field, known for coining the term 'artificial intelligence'.
Pamela McCorduck: Machines Who Think and the Early Days of AI | Lex Fridman Podcast #34
Lex Fridman
A founding father of AI, who was initially skeptical of McCorduck's book idea but later cooperated.
Melanie Mitchell: Concepts, Analogies, Common Sense & Future of AI | Lex Fridman Podcast #61
Lex Fridman
The computer scientist who coined the term 'artificial intelligence' but later regretted it, initially to distinguish it from cybernetics.
AI Whistleblower: We Are Being Gaslit By The AI Companies! They’re Hiding The Truth About AI!
The Diary Of A CEO
An assistant professor at Dartmouth University credited with naming the scientific discipline of artificial intelligence in 1956.