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From: person@plains.NoDak.edu (Brett G. Person)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Re: What actually is AI?
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Date: 15 Sep 90 23:29:59 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!
>
I'm sure they did.  I remember a couple of years ago when I told my aunts
and uncles - who are mostly farmers - that I wanted to specialize in AI.
I got some pretty strange looks. 

"You want to be an Engineer?  Gee, we didn't even know you liked trains."
                                -A quote from an old uncle of mine
-- 
Brett G. Person
North Dakota State University
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