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Comment author: dlthomas 08 November 2011 09:00:01PM 1 point [-]

"Artificial Intelligence" sounds like an academic pursuit from the bowels of MIT[.]

Isn't it literally that?

This doesn't preclude it also being other things, of course...

Comment author: TheOtherDave 08 November 2011 09:24:19PM 2 points [-]

While I admit that I don't precisely know where the bowels of MIT were, I'm pretty sure the AI Lab wasn't in them.

Comment author: dlthomas 08 November 2011 09:26:45PM * 0 points [-]

Presumably that would be the steam tunnels, which (if memory of lore serves) many AI hackers of yore spent time exploring.

Edited to add:

Hack, sense 9, in the Jargon File makes oblique reference.

Comment author: TheOtherDave 08 November 2011 10:24:47PM 0 points [-]

Well, sure, but you might as well say that AI came from the cafeterias of MIT, where many AI hackers spent time eating.

Comment author: dlthomas 08 November 2011 10:39:50PM 1 point [-]

A case could certainly be made.