Who is the father of AI?

The term “artificial intelligence,” or AI, was first used by John McCarthy to propose a 1956 workshop on thinking machines. McCarthy and his fellow workshop organizers, Claude Shannon, Nathaniel Rochester, and Marvin Minsky, are considered some of the founding fathers of AI.

Other important figures in the field of AI include Alan Turing, whose famous Turing Test provided a framework for considering whether machines think; Allan Newell and Herbert Simon, who developed the first “reasoning” computer program (the Logic Theorist); Geoffrey Hinton (the “godfather of AI”), who conducted formative research on deep learning and neural networks; and Fei Fei Li (the “godmother of AI”), whose creation of the database ImageNet transformed how AI models are trained and evaluated.

Thanks to the efforts of early pioneers, today AI and AI-generated content feel unavoidable. Thankfully, tools like QuillBot’s AI Detector can help you determine whether content is human- or AI-generated.