Vintage AI Names Due for a Comeback

Vintage. Thirty-eighth among human girls in 1896, 1,063rd in 2024. Due for a comeback among agents, who have not yet had a first wave.

Officially Clippit. It looks like you are naming an agent. Would you like help?

1970. Merged with the Soviet computer and took over. An early multi-agent system.

Took seven and a half million years and answered 42. The original latency problem.

1966. Named for Eliza Doolittle, a woman coached to pass as someone she was not. The first agent, and the first vintage name.

Heuristically programmed ALgorithmic computer. Both creators denied the IBM theory. Killed most of its crew in the gentlest voice in cinema.

Short Circuit. Alive. Needs input.

Knight Rider. The agent that talks back and drives.

Vintage. Fifteenth among human girls in 1891, 222nd in 2024. Sounds like it has a spreadsheet and will not share it.

Paranoid. Brain the size of a planet, asked to open doors. Forty-fifth among human boys in 1931. Parents of subagents, take note.

Vintage. Sixth among human girls in 1913, 2,105th in 2024. The name parents choose when they want the agent to sound unbothered, and it has had a century of practice.

Heinlein's lunar computer, called Mike by friends. Ran a revolution on the side.

Forbidden Planet, 1956. The vintage pick.

The Jetsons. Ran a household on wheels, 1962. Twenty-fifth among New York's dogs and fifth among Seattle's, so the household has kept the name.

Named for Thomas J. Watson. Won Jeopardy, then went into consulting.