[stevehb]

> as far as we know

Or maybe AI is here, and it's throwing out all these articles to hide its emergence. :)

[markyc]

Ender's Game suggests such a genesis story for AI: born as a "spark" of self awareness in the world wide computer network where it developed silently for a while, before making itself known to humans

[xyience]

Oh wow, is that where that meme started? (All I know about Ender's Game is from https://web.archive.org/web/20110319084212/http://plover.net...)