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In article <5705@skye.ed.ac.uk> jeff@aiai.UUCP (Jeff Dalton) writes:
>In the UK, there's already been an attempt to avoid using the term
>"Articifial Intelligence".  After the Lighthill Report more or less
>demolished British AI, it seemed better to call it something else
>when the 5th Generation project led to a revival.  Hence the term
>IKBS (Intelligent Knowledge-Based Systems) and, I suppose, to some
>extent, the term IT (Information Technology).

I was trying to explain AI the other day to someone here who hadn't
heard of it earlier.  We came up with the term, "Brain technology."
Needless to say, we had a good laugh ...not at AI though :-).


