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ALT Bender remains particularly fond of an alternative name for AI proposed by a former member of the Italian Parliament: “Systematic Approaches to Learning Algorithms and Machine Inferences.” Then people would be out here asking, “Is this SALAMI intelligent? Can this SALAMI write a novel? Does this SALAMI deserve human rights?”
ALT “I am not quarreling or finding fault with a crocodile; a crocodile is a very respectable person in his way,” said the Reverend William Buckland, a theologian known for his attempts to prove that fossils were the record of the biblical flood and for accidentally eating the mummified heart of Louis XIV of France because he thought it was a rare mineral. “But I quarrel with finding a man, a *crocodile improved.*”
ALT While dining out one evening at Lord Harcourt's residence at Nuneham in 1848 he was shown a silver locket containing an object resembling pumice stone. He popped the object in his mouth, perhaps to try and find out what mineral it was, and swallowed it. It was in fact part of the mummified heart of Louis XIV of France which had been taken from the royal tomb by a member of the Harcourt family.
