McCarthy later said he was disappointed that "Automata Studies" attracted papers about automata rather than the human-level machine intelligence he wanted to study.

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"McCarthy later said he was disappointed that “Automata Studies” attracted papers about automata rather than the human-level machine intelligence he wanted to study."

McCarthy's retrospective account says the neutral label brought in work about automata that did not match the broader intelligence problem he wanted to pursue.

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Source title Anthropomorphising Machines and Computerising Minds: The Crosswiring of Languages between Artificial Intelligence and Brain & Cognitive Sciences

Source authors Luciano Floridi; Anna C Nobre

Source year 2024

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