It's been an onomatopoeic word from the sound a big fire starting makes for a long time. It seems to have come into use for AI over a decade ago: https://www.o

It's been an onomatopoeic word from the sound a big fire starting makes for a long time. It seems to have come into use for AI over a decade ago: https://www.overcomingbias.com/p/ai-go-foomhtml https://www.overcomingbias.com/p/ai-go-foomhtml, https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/foom https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/foom