John McCarthy coined the term AI in 1955 for a research project that included NN. He then founded the MIT AI Project (later AI Lab) with one of the researchers

John McCarthy coined the term AI in 1955 for a research project that included NN. He then founded the MIT AI Project (later AI Lab) with one of the researchers who joined the project, Marvin Minsky, who also had created the first NN in 1951. If NNs aren't AI, what is? http://jmc.stanford.edu/articles/dartmouth/dartmouth.pdf http://jmc.stanford.edu/articles/dartmouth/dartmouth.pdf