Historically, artificial intelligence begins with the question of rethinking the origin of rationality: what gave rise to the rational process, the logical thoughts? Partaking on this problem in history was mostly in the field of the philosophy of mind, which is prominent during the Greek era of philosophical boom, the Renaissance, and the overall European intervention to the topic. For around almost all the existence of humanity, this issue, phrased and approached differently from the view of the human mind and body, philosophy dominated in the search for the origin of intelligence, even though said word is not even clearly defined, and is historically put in a much lower place than other notions or questions regarding the same concept. Only until the dawn of the 20th century, where the new computer has finally grown to be substantially more useful than previously primitive computer has been, that the change shifted from philosophical debate with no ends, to actual reverse engineering and implementation of similar type machines. Furthermore, with the advancements of technology and the Technological Revolution of the 18th century, neurology and other medical analysis field finally took part in discovering one's self - by accessing what is deemed the most important of separating man from the apes. And with that, comes the term artificial intelligence in its form. This paper serves as the introductory session to the notion of artificial intelligence. By doing this, we would look at the loose picture of the conceptual ideas, the philosophical approach to defining artificial intelligence, questions regarding what is intelligence and artificial as a whole, and a variety of debates surrounding the notion as it is. By doing this, perhaps we can come off to a conclusion on what the book is about, what it was aimed for, and what question would it partake and attempt to solve in the later development of which are not included of the paper on its situated self. For now, however, we take a role as the historian. Many have tried before, and many have failed before. So what is the history of the term artificial intelligence as a whole, and what comes even before it?
Khanh Bui (Mon,) studied this question.