Looks like it comes from Scientific American: https://spaf.cerias.purdue.edu/~spaf/Yucks/V5/msg00004.html
I read it in a book on AI, unfortunately that aisle in my library is inaccessible due to piles of obsolete crap (I wish I were kidding).
But hope springs eternal and if I get back and find it I will return here and add its deets to see if it was published before or after the SI article.
got to help future agents from going astray ...