John McCarthy
AI pioneer; co-founded Stanford/AI Lab; authored early visions like 'Programs with Common Sense'.
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Videos Mentioning John McCarthy
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.
Marc Andreessen introspects on Death of the Browser, Pi + OpenClaw, and Why "This Time Is Different"
Latent Space
One of the inventors of AI and an organizer of the Dartmouth Conference, who spent decades on research without seeing its full realization.