Don't get me wrong, I've been developing Artificial Intelligence systems for longer than I am willing to confess. Heck, I get paid for it. Anyone who's been following AI knows that the definition of AI is a continuously morphing construct. AI has grown from primordial origins which by today's standards would not be classed as Artificial Intelligence. In the earliest AI, epoque research laboratories used curve fitting and regression or straightforward trees of human written rules to produce results that amazed the general public.
One of those amazing rule-based AI systems was so simple that it could be implemented with a handful of relays, switches, and light bulbs. It bested humans at tic-tac-toe. Interesting note: This AI tic-tac-toe system was usually incorporated in a carnival-like kiosk containing a chicken who was purported to play the game of tic-tac-toe against the human. In reality, the simple relay based tic-tac-toe playing computer turned on a light that the chicken could see (but was hidden from the human's view). The chicken was trained to peck at the space (a switch) with the light and it would get a pellet of food. (I won't in good conscience provide a link, you will have to Google this of your own free will in order to waste 20 minutes.)
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