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From: tesar@boulder.Colorado.EDU (Bruce Tesar)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Re: What actually is AI?
Summary: Less amusing alt. interpretation
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Date: 30 Aug 90 04:48:48 GMT
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In article <34175@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU> dmark@acsu.buffalo.edu (David Mark) writes:
>I gave a talk once at a University in a farming region, and found out
>that in Ag. Schools, "AI" stands for "Artificial Insemination".  :-)
>                                                   ^^^^^^^^^^
>And "they" probably used the abbreviation before "we" did!
>
>David Mark
>dmark@acsu.buffalo.edu

AI also stands for "Amnesty International", the international human rights
organization (OK, so it's not as funny as David's).

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Bruce B. Tesar
Computer Science Dept., University of Colorado at Boulder 
Internet:  tesar@boulder.colorado.edu