Who was the father of AI?

John McCarthy
Abstract: If John McCarthy, the father of AI, were to coin a new phrase for “artificial intelligence” today, he would probably use “computational intelligence.” McCarthy is not just the father of AI, he is also the inventor of the Lisp (list processing) language.

Who invented the AI?

John McCarthy (computer scientist)

John McCarthy
Born	September 4, 1927 Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
Died	October 24, 2011 (aged 84) Stanford, California, U.S.
Alma mater	Princeton University, California Institute of Technology
Known for	Artificial intelligence, Lisp, circumscription, situation calculus

Who created AI robots?

George Devol
AI in the 1960s 1961: Unimate, an industrial robot invented by George Devol in the 1950s, became the first to work on a General Motors assembly line in New Jersey.

When was AI founded?

1956
The beginnings of modern AI can be traced to classical philosophers’ attempts to describe human thinking as a symbolic system. But the field of AI wasn’t formally founded until 1956, at a conference at Dartmouth College, in Hanover, New Hampshire, where the term “artificial intelligence” was coined.

Who is the grandfather of AI?

They are sometimes referred to as the “Godfathers of AI” and “Godfathers of Deep Learning”, and have continued to give public talks together….Geoffrey Hinton.

Geoffrey Hinton CC FRS FRSC
Born	Geoffrey Everest Hinton 6 December 1947 Wimbledon, London
Alma mater	University of Cambridge (BA) University of Edinburgh (PhD)

What did Kai Fu Lee invent?

Lee developed a speaker-independent, continuous speech recognition system as his Ph. D. thesis at Carnegie Mellon University. He later worked as an executive, first at Apple, then SGI, Microsoft, and Google.