HappinessNow
June 11th, 2012, 12:43 PM
fascinating article about an Android built to look, act, speak and think? like Philip K. ****:
https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-fMsbsNXpoTM/T9XY1Yl-lOI/AAAAAAAAP_Y/361dZ9fgDIY/s420/art_556381334-420x0.jpg
JONES: What do you think about the president?
PHIL: Which president do you have in mind?
JONES: Where are we now?
PHIL (looking around the room): We appear to be in my living room. (Pause.) It could be a simulacrum, though (pause), but why would the authorities bother?
Sometimes, the bot's responses were almost too realistic. "It looked very much like my dad," his daughter Isa told the Los Angeles Times a few years after first meeting the bot. "When my name was mentioned it launched into a long rant about my mother. ... It was not pleasant." In other cases, ****'s words were confusing at best: Once, when its conversation partner said that she was the president of the University of Memphis, the robot replied, "I knew he was president, but I never knew of the University of Memphis."
Intriguingly, though, some observers recall the exchange not as a hiccup, but as a triumph, with the **** head cracking a joke: "I've heard of the president, but I've never heard of the University of Memphis." "Instead of nonsense," Dufty writers, "they remember a witty rebuff. They found an intelligent message where there was none. They saw a face in the clouds." In many ways, this reaction harkens back to the early "chatbot" program Eliza, a "Rogerian therapist" developed in the 1960s by MIT's Joseph Weizenbaum.
http://www.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/the-android-head-of-philip-k-****-20120608-201aa.html
https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-fMsbsNXpoTM/T9XY1Yl-lOI/AAAAAAAAP_Y/361dZ9fgDIY/s420/art_556381334-420x0.jpg
JONES: What do you think about the president?
PHIL: Which president do you have in mind?
JONES: Where are we now?
PHIL (looking around the room): We appear to be in my living room. (Pause.) It could be a simulacrum, though (pause), but why would the authorities bother?
Sometimes, the bot's responses were almost too realistic. "It looked very much like my dad," his daughter Isa told the Los Angeles Times a few years after first meeting the bot. "When my name was mentioned it launched into a long rant about my mother. ... It was not pleasant." In other cases, ****'s words were confusing at best: Once, when its conversation partner said that she was the president of the University of Memphis, the robot replied, "I knew he was president, but I never knew of the University of Memphis."
Intriguingly, though, some observers recall the exchange not as a hiccup, but as a triumph, with the **** head cracking a joke: "I've heard of the president, but I've never heard of the University of Memphis." "Instead of nonsense," Dufty writers, "they remember a witty rebuff. They found an intelligent message where there was none. They saw a face in the clouds." In many ways, this reaction harkens back to the early "chatbot" program Eliza, a "Rogerian therapist" developed in the 1960s by MIT's Joseph Weizenbaum.
http://www.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/the-android-head-of-philip-k-****-20120608-201aa.html