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[moon_custafer]

So, IBM is still seeing what they can do with Watson the computer. Recently they've tried feeding in data about foodstuffs and how humans react to different flavours, and tried having the machine generate recipes. It's rather reminiscent of Eddie, the Heart of Gold's computer, trying to make proper tea (as opposed the usual sweet brown liquid

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[serizawa3000]

I heard someone's commentary on NPR's Fresh Air this afternoon... it was pertaining to the recentish story about an AI passing the Turing Test. He mentioned factors such as the AI's "personality" being that of a 13-year-old boy from a non-English-speaking country, and for whatever reason I kept thinking of HAL 9000 and his creator (as essayed by Bob Balaban)... But the commentator (a linguist whose name escapes me) singled out the recent film Her as an example (featuring audio of the "break-up" scene where Joaquin Phoenix's character is flabbergasted by "Samantha" (the AI, voiced by Scarlett Johansson) sighing as she speaks. "You don't need to breathe! Why are you doing that?" "It's... I guess it's an affectation