AI: the Inverse Tower of Babel

I've always found the fact that the acronym for artificial intelligence in English, AI, is surprisingly similar to the first two characters for that word in both simplified Chinese -- '人工智能'. The first two characters together, 人工, mean'people' and'work' individually, but when put together mean'artificial' while '智能' means'intelligent.' This is quite a fascinating linguistic experiment, and it's interesting that the two most widely used languages in the world came up a similar acronym or character for one of the most important technologies ever invented by man. Perhaps there is some weird universal synergy going on or maybe there's an easy answer hidden somewhere deep within the linguistic annals of these two languages. Either way, this got me thinking about language.