Re: [Patents] Russell's contempt for the motivation of scientists and engineers

[Roland Orre <orre@nada.kth.se>]

On Wed, 2003-05-07 at 08:16, Bernard Lang wrote:
>  The Aharonian netbot is a remarkable software achievement, but thinking
> that we can mistake it for an actual rational being is indeed an
> insult to our intelligence.

Due to its responses it seems not to be much more advanced than Eliza.
Whatever you feed it with, it replies with the same arrogance and
limited repertoir over and over. It is completely immune to rational
arguing and doesn't reply to direct questions, at least not those
questions that were asked.


>  It may be a useful mechanical sparring partner, like a wall for tennis,
> but other than for training, not worth spending too much time.

>From this point of view it does us a favour, the sad thing is that this
is also implemented as a real world simulation (I don't want to use
"avatar" here because that is a positively charged word)  which can make
official babble as well. Hopefully speaking only for the already lost
souls.

        Roland