Full record for AI n.
| Definition | abbrev. for artificial intelligence, the science of producing computer programs capable of 'intelligent' behaviour |
| OED requirements | antedating 1963 |
| Earliest cite | Artificial Intelligence Project, MIT |
| Comment | Garrett Wollman submitted citations for "A.I." from 1963, and "AI" from 1966, in documents from the Artificial Intelligence Project at MIT
Earliest cite in the OED: 1971 |
| Last modified | 9 November, 2005 |
Citations for AI n.
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| 1966 J. Moses Symbolic IntegrationJune 10, 1966 (title page) | AI Memo 97 |
| 1980 P. K. Dick Chains of Air, Web of Aether in We can remember It for you Wholesale (1994) 433 | The large AI System—Artificial Intelligence Plasma—which handled the major problem-solving for star systems in their area of the galaxy had some available time which could be bought for private use. |
| 1984 D. Brin Practice Effect i.ii. 6 | Dennis had spent the last six months directing a small AI program mandated by an unbreakable old endowment. |
| 1984 W. Gibson Neuromancer (1989) ii.v. 73 | Wintermute is the recognition code for an AI. |
| 1988 C. J. Cherryh Cyteen 104 | There were things the AI checker might not catch. |
| 1991 Omni Apr. 92/3 | But so far, AI has proved to be much less adaptable to the workplace than people had imagined. |
| 1991 Omni Mar. 14/1 | Well, don't blame them—unless they're radical-thinking artificial intelligence experts. The first international AI conference in Paris brought together researchers who have pushed aside their more ambitious programs or something a bit more modest. |
| 1992 O. S. Card Lost Boys (1993) iii. 41 | ‘A.I.? ’ he asked. ‘You know—artificial intelligence.’ |
| 1992 A. Steele Labyrinth of Night 133 | After we get our shoreleave ‥ the AI's will be minding the ship while it's parked in orbit, so we can stretch our legs a bit on the ground. |
| 1992 Locus June 11/2 | He's merely a‥computer simulation created to test certain premises about AI, the nature of consciousness, and the dependance of reality upon the observer. |
| 1992 Locus Aug. 11/1 | It develops that Kalifriki and Alice are both otherworldly creatures, and speak in terms of black holes, accretion disks, AIs, and clones. |
| 1992 Sci. Fiction Age Nov. 34/1 | Chatterbox, I keyed back, my sarcasm wasted no doubt on my constant companion (one of the Services' portable personal A.I.'s-sidekick model). |
| 1992 SFRA Rev. July–Aug.–Sept. 62 | If you read ‘AI’, do you assume it means ‘Artificial Intelligence’ and not, perhaps, ‘Artificial Insemination’ or ‘ai’, a three-toed sloth? |
| 1992 Locus Aug. 52/2 | Humorous sf novel about an AI disrupting all mechanical life on Earth in search of a nonhuman higher intelligence. |
| 1993 K. S. Robinson Red Mars i. 13 | But Frank had gotten the day's emergency code out of the fire department AI that morning. |
| 1993 J. Brosnan Opoponax Invasion (1994) 48 | He had the uncomfortable suspicion that the AI might be playing with him. You never knew with AIs. They had intellects of mind-boggling proportions but still remained the slaves of humanity. |
| 1993 K. S. Robinson Green Mars 233 | He hadn't said anything since the message had arrived, and was busy at his AI screen, looking at what appeared to be weather satellite photos. |
| 1993 Sci. Fiction Age Jan. 27/1 | Artificial Intelligence (AI) was much touted in the 1960s as an imminent achievement. |
| 1994 Analog Science Fiction & Fact Jan. 172/1 | He has third level A.I. |
| 2005 C. Stross Accelerando i. 14 | You know anyone who can use a Warpac surplus espionage bot? Recent model, one careful owner, slightly paranoid but basically sound—I mean, claims to be a general-purpose AI? |