Computer scientist John McCarthy is credited with coining what two-word term in 1955 to describe the field of creating machines capable of performing tasks that typically require human intelligence?
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Artificial intelligence
McCarthy coined the term for a 1956 conference at Dartmouth College, which is now considered the founding event of the field. He also developed the Lisp programming language.
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