In 1955, John McCarthy, at the time a professor of computer science at Dartmouth College, coined the term “artificial intelligence.” Progress was slow, but they were convinced that a thinking machine could be created. Countering such predictions were those claiming that much of what was being said of the potential of artificial intelligence was being way overblown. Early indications had been that, with artificial intelligence, thinking machines would become intellectually invincible, but it was becoming increasingly clear that they were hardly perfect, at least not yet. As the leading critic (or perhaps skeptic) of artificial intelligence, he restated his position that machines and people had precious little in common.