History Main / AICronym

* ''WebComic/ValAndIsaac'' features Doris, model name [=DOR15=], which stands for "'''D'''etective '''O'''r '''R'''etail Mk. '''15'''" (she's shown working retail as a day job, but easily switches to detective mode when [[spoiler: everyone but Val is kidnapped]]. Lampshaded when another [=DOR15=] accuses her of having changed her identity because it's such an unoriginal name.

* Another early computer, designed by Alan Turing (and described in his 1946 [[http://www.turingarchive.org/browse.php/C/32 proposal]]) was the '''A'''utomated '''C'''omputing '''E'''ngine. A pilot version eventually went live in 1950, and in 1952 a version was put to work with a name that allegedly expanded to '''D'''igital '''E'''lectronic '''U'''niversal '''C'''omputing '''E'''ngine.

* {{Zigzagged|Trope}} by The robots in ''Film/ShortCircuit'' who belong to the SAINT (Strategic Artificially Intelligent Nuclear Transport) line and were originally pitched as robotic nuclear {{suicide|Attack}} bombers - they kept the SAINT designation even after being repurposed for less self-destructive purposes like normal warfare leaving their acronyms a case of ArtifactTitle.

* {{Implied|Trope}} by [[RobotGirl Penny]] from ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'': A shot of her schematics in Volume 3 reveals that her name is an acronym, though what it stands for isn't revealed.

* '''Series/PowerRangersSPD''' has a cyborg named Sophie, which stands for '''S'''eries '''O'''ne '''P'''rocessor '''H'''yper '''I'''ntelligent '''E'''ncryptor.

* ''Series/ProjectMc2'': features a talking notebook called A.D.I.S.N. Pronounced “Addison” it stands for '''A'''dvanced '''D'''igital '''I'''ntelligence '''S'''py '''N'''otebook.

* The Scotland Yard computer system named 'HOLMES' - Home Office Linked Major Enquiry System. While a few of those words are [[RedundantDepartmentOfRedundancy meaningless additions]] to ensure the acronym remains a reference to Literature/SherlockHolmes, the rest still describe its purpose as an enquiry system.

* In ''VideoGame/{{Primordia}}'', a floating robot named Scraper, stands for '''S'''ubway '''C'''onstruction, '''R'''epair, '''a'''nd '''P'''recision '''E'''xcavation '''R'''obot. [[spoiler: [[BigBad MetroMind]] had repurposed him as [[TheDragon her enforcer]], and his theft of Horatio Nullbuilt's power core started the game's plot.]]

* Subverted in ''Film/SteveJobs'' where the titular character named a computer program '''L'''ocally '''I''ntegrated '''S'''ystems '''A'''rchitecture, then tries to pull off that it's ''coincidentally'' named after the daughter he denied was his for a number of years. At the end of the film he admits to her, "Locally integrated systems architecture doesn't even mean anything."

->'''BOSS:''' My designers also found it amusing. [[AIIsACrapshoot I find it suitable.]]

* E.A.R.L., short for "Electronic Automatic Robotic Lighthouse", from ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' episode "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS8E9ElViajeMisteriosoDeNuestroJomer El Viaje Misterioso de Nuestro Jomer]]" - it's ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin; an automatic lighthouse. Highly contrived and redundant, of course -- all robots are automatic, and non-electronic robots, while technically possible, are hopelessly obsolete.

* ''LightNovel/SwordArtOnline'': RATH's goal in the ''Project Alicization'' arc is to produce an ALICE ('''A'''rtificial '''L'''abile '''I'''ntelligent '''C'''ybernated '''E'''xistence) - an [[ArtificialHuman Artificial Fluctlight]] created entirely from scratch, making it immune to the CloneDegeneration issues that plague [[VirtualGhost copies of existing minds]]. To do so they create a quasi-European [[LotusEaterMachine virtual world]] inhabited by proto-[=ALICEs=], grant them the ability to breed with each other, and run it through hundreds of years of simulated time until they detect that a true ALICE has emerged. To their shock, the first one they find is a girl named ''[[PropheticName Alice]]'' Zuberg.

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* ''LightNovel/SwordArtOnline'': Alice's name in the ''Alicization'' arc is derived from RATH's goal to create an '''A'''rtificial '''L'''abile '''I'''ntelligent '''C'''ybernated '''E'''xistence. In other words, an A.I. advanced enough to emulate human behavior at full.

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* Another early computer, designed by Alan Turing (and described in his 1946 [[http://www.turingarchive.org/browse.php/C/32 proposal]]) was the '''A'''utomated '''C'''omputing '''E'''ngine. A pilot version eventually went live in 1950, and in 1952 a version was put to work with a name that allegedly expanded to '''D'''igital '''E'''letronic '''U'''niversal '''C'''omputing '''E'''ngine.

* ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'': In season 4, Radcliffe's assistant Aida is an android. It's not until the end of the season that her name is revealed to stand for '''A'''rtificially '''I'''ntelligent '''D'''igital '''A'''ssistant, a somewhat ironic name because she technically wasn't AI at first.

* E.A.R.L., short for "Electronic Automatic Robotic Lighthouse", from ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' episode "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS8E9ElViajeMisteriosoDeNuestroJomer El Viaje Misterioso de Nuestro Jomer]]" - it's ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin; an automatic lighthouse.

* HAL (Heuristically programmed [=ALgorithmic=] computer) from ''Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey'' - It's technically HAL 9000, suggesting it is part of a series, but no others are ever mentioned. It has been speculated that HAL was named in reference to IBM, as when "HAL" is encrypted in a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caesar_cipher Caesar cipher]] with a right shift of 1, it becomes "IBM", but the filmmakers denied this.

* HAL (Heuristically programmed [=ALgorithmic=] computer) from ''Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey'' - It's technically ''a'' HAL 9000, but no others ever appeared in the series. (It has been rumored that HAL was named in homage to IBM, with each letter of the corporate initials replaced with the alphabetically previous one, but the filmmakers denied this.)

* The Scotland Yard computer system named 'HOLMES' - Home Office Linked Major Enquiry System. While a few of those words are [[RedundantDepartmentOfRedundancy meaningless additions]] to ensure the acronym remains a reference to Franchise/SherlockHolmes, the rest still describe its purpose as an enquiry system.

* E.A.R.L., short for "Electronic Automatic Robotic Lighthouse", from ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' - it's ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin; an automatic lighthouse.

* WesternAnimation/TransformersPrime featured Sylas, a rogue [[Main/FromCamouflageToCriminal special tactics]] colonel, out to capture technology to create his NewWorldOrder. After realizing that the Transformers weren't just vehicles, he sets out to create the 'perfect meld of man and machine' - this eventually comes to a head when he is nearly killed by one of his own creations falling on him, and undergoes an EmergencyTransformation into the lifeless husk of a dead transformer. He names himself "CYLAS" afterwards, as in '[=CYbernetic=] Life Augmented by Symbiosis'.

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