The term Artificial General Intelligence was introduced to me by Shane Legg, when we were discussing possible titles for the "Real AI" (now "AGI") edited volume. [Shane worked at Webmind Inc., and later at A2I2, and will shortly be joining IDSR in Switzerland to work with Marcus Hutter on algorithmic-information-theoretic approaches to AGI.]
Whether Shane got invented it himself, or got it from Peter Voss or somebody else, I don't know. I heard the term out of Pei Wang's mouth plenty of times, though I'm not sure he ever used it in print. And the term was used in print before I met Shane or Pei or Peter... For example, this paper by Mark Gubrud from 1997 http://www.csr.umd.edu/~mgubrud/nanosec1.html uses the term repeatedly, in basically the same sense we're using it now. I would bet he was not the first to use it either... -- Ben Goertzel > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On > Behalf Of Eliezer S. Yudkowsky > Sent: Wednesday, January 08, 2003 4:26 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [agi] Q: Who coined "AGI"? > > > Was it Ben Goertzel or Peter Voss who first coined the term "Artificial > General Intelligence"? > > -- > Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://singinst.org/ > Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence > > ------- > To unsubscribe, change your address, or temporarily deactivate > your subscription, > please go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?[EMAIL PROTECTED] > ------- To unsubscribe, change your address, or temporarily deactivate your subscription, please go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?[EMAIL PROTECTED]
