Artificial whaaat?

[Boringgeoff]

Half asleep in front of TV the other night I heard a young woman mention AI, and immediately thought she was talking about Artificial Insemination. A term I am familiar with from Agricultural school and later involved in flock improvement on a Merino stud property. Come on dumbo get into the 21st century, AI means Artificial Intelligence. Another hijacked term, the geeks should be forced to call it AI-mk2.
Cheers,
Geoff.

[rob streeper]

Judging by the appropriateness of the Amazon ad's I receive (Spanx?) it means Automatic Idiot.

[Lappa]

Ahh - another Agricultural School fellow. I can remember the merino ram eyeing us cautiously when the teacher moved in with the electro- ejaculator:D

[KBs PensNmore]

Artificial Intelligence, isn't that a Blonde, who dyes her hair a different colour???

[BobL]

Half asleep in front of TV the other night I heard a young woman mention AI, and immediately thought she was talking about Artificial Insemination. A term I am familiar with from Agricultural school and later involved in flock improvement on a Merino stud property. Come on dumbo get into the 21st century, AI means Artificial Intelligence. Another hijacked term, the geeks should be forced to call it AI-mk2.

It depends what school you went to. Going to a city school I first heard about AI at Uni in the 1970's in a computing class.

Here's some stuff from the web.

The first recorded Artificial Insemination was by an Italian who AI'ed a dog in 1780, while for a woman it was 1884 by an Philadelphia professor of medicine who selected the "best looking student in his class" for the sperm donation . The woman was anaesthetised and did not know what was going on. The case was not made public until 25 years later. Farming AI began in the mid 1930's.

The use of AI as A intelligence in relation to computers etc was first recorded in the early 1950's by Alan Turing - the bloke primarily responsible for cracking the Enigma code.

The use of the abbreviations "AI", for terms also became popular in the 1950s when corporate speak started abbreviating abbreviating everything. In that case both terms probably started using the abbreviation at around the same time.