@airshipper @malcircuit @spiegelmama The very short version is that back in the late 50s, John McCarthy and Marvin Minsky wanted to hold an academic conference about computing, but the field of cybernetics (founded and headed by Norbert Wiener) pretty much dominated the area. McCarthy and Minsky couldn't stand Wiener, so they came up with the term "artificial intelligence" instead of "cybernetics" so they could get away with not inviting him.