"John McCarthy deliberately chose the term Artificial Intelligence partly to escape association with cybernetics and avoid treating Norbert Wiener as a guru or having to argue with him."
Nilsson documents McCarthy's explanation of the naming decision, including his desire to avoid the intellectual baggage of cybernetics and its emphasis on analog feedback. This directly supports the chapter's argument that the identity of artificial intelligence was shaped partly through deliberate differentiation from an existing research tradition.
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