A Mercury News reporter (Mike Cassidy) actually had the gall (well, maybe it didn’t take that much chutzpah) to ask John McCarthy to go see A.I. with him. The John McCarthy. As in, the guy who named artificial intelligence “artificial intelligence”. As in, the guy who invented LISP. OK, so maybe I’m just jealous that I didn’t think of taking him myself. Not that he’d go with little ol’ me. But he did go with the reporter. And I think he liked the movie. I didn’t read the article too closely because I haven’t seen A.I. yet and the less I know, the better.