In other assorted craziness:

http://www.boingboing.net/2009/11/02/mechanical-computer.html

It doesn't explain it very well, but this is the very first AI algorithm 
I ever saw. Mental, eh? A bunch of matchboxes can learn to play 
tic-tac-toe. Unless it loses its marbles...

(Of course, the intelligent commentator will realise that it's actually 
the human operator that is learning, not the matchboxes.)

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