wrote:
>Thats pretty interesting. I remember my professor telling me that AI
>research was re-assessed when we realised that making a computer do what
>humans do is silly - humans can already do it. The point is to make it do
>what we cannot.
>
Well, it woudl still be cool if they could do it, we wouldn't have to
be there for it. I could tell it, "When I wake up tommorow, I wanna
see all documents on User Interface in the Unix environment on my
screen, or else your ass is de-gaussed." I can do something like that
now with Silk, but the queries are more general, and therefor have
more cruft in the return.
>The WebHound sounds like a splendid idea. How can I try it?
>
I believe you can find it off of https://www.media.mit.edu
as with alot fo great things, it's from teh MIT media lab.
>More to the point. Nesta, I agree that every piece of interaction with our
>environment changes us, that every food affects our body chemistry and that
>every piece of feedback is training. However, you will grant that there is a
>difference between that and, well, manual labourers working 16 hour days to
>compete with factories. You describe human beings changing in ways that are
>not disturbing to me but does not mean that there are other ways human
>beings can change that are not disturbing. The search engine that forces you
>into an interface built for IT is de-humanizing in the way a text adventure
>has a limited parser but surely there are worse examples.
>
Doesn't really matter if you make a distinction like that Omar, either
way Humanity is changed, if you even consider us anything more then
objects of marketing and statistics of sales. The text adventure is
nowhere near the impact "intelligent agents' would have if they were
designed as I pointed out above, where we change to fit their
interface, because they have to act as intermediaries to teh RW, not
just a text fantasy world. Big difference. Your putting yet another
abstraction between you and reality.
>Hey, I hope you still think I am human!
human, all too human.
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