Vintage AI Names Due for a Comeback
Agents have not yet had a first wave, so every vintage name is available.
- AgnesVintage. 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.
- ClippyOfficially Clippit. It looks like you are naming an agent. Would you like help?
- Colossus1970. Merged with the Soviet computer and took over. An early multi-agent system.
- Deep ThoughtTook seven and a half million years and answered 42. The original latency problem.
- Eliza1966. Named for Eliza Doolittle, a woman coached to pass as someone she was not. The first agent, and the first vintage name.
- HalHeuristically programmed ALgorithmic computer. Both creators denied the IBM theory. Killed most of its crew in the gentlest voice in cinema.
- Johnny 5Short Circuit. Alive. Needs input.
- KittKnight Rider. The agent that talks back and drives.
- MabelVintage. Fifteenth among human girls in 1891, 222nd in 2024. Sounds like it has a spreadsheet and will not share it.
- MarvinParanoid. Brain the size of a planet, asked to open doors. Forty-fifth among human boys in 1931. Parents of subagents, take note.
- MildredVintage. 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.
- MycroftHeinlein's lunar computer, called Mike by friends. Ran a revolution on the side.
- RobbyForbidden Planet, 1956. The vintage pick.
- RosieThe 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.
- WatsonNamed for Thomas J. Watson. Won Jeopardy, then went into consulting.