thats true, i would love to practice french and such a program would be, practically, my own personal tutor!
trying to run a search seems to bring about too many results for such a software. a single link would save a whole lot of time. cheers, muffi ----- Original Message ----- From: "Geetha Shamanna" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, September 16, 2006 2:01 PM Subject: Re: [AI] takeover bid > This article does not unfortunately mention the site where one can chat > with > 'George'. > Robots can be ideal for people wanting to practice a foreign language. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Aruni Sharma" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Friday, September 15, 2006 3:44 PM > Subject: [AI] takeover bid > > >> Alan Turing, the British mathematician whose concepts in the early >> 1950s foreshadowed the modern-day digital computer, proposed a simple >> test to check for artificial intelligence. >> If a human judge, he said, engaged in a natural language text >> conversation with two other parties, one a human and the other a >> machine, and if the judge could not reliably tell which was which, then >> the machine would for all purposes have passed the test. >> As of 2006 no machine has managed to do that. But now a robot messager >> or chatbot has hit the Internet. It is so lifelike in its responses that >> many people have been fooled into thinking they're talking to a human >> being. >> Invented by British scientists and nicknamed George, it's programmed to >> show emotions, tell jokes, answer questions and engage in intimate >> conversation on subjects as varied as love, life and the universe. >> It can also speak 40 languages as its vocabulary continues to improve >> which, incidentally, is bound to happen considering George has already >> chatted with some two million people since its inception. >> George is also capable of carrying on a conversation with hundreds of >> different people at the same time from all over the globe. To some >> people, though, the scary part is that George continues to evolve. >> >> >> From expressing itself only as a disembodied text interface, a >> fully-animated 3D image of an androgynous-looking humanoid capable of an >> extensive range >> of gestures and expressions has recently been introduced to online >> audiences. >> >> This new George, unlike many other conversational programs, does not >> merely try to be logical but attempts to form relationships and >> frequently behave illogically >> in order to seem more alive. >> >> This is exactly what had been predicted by people ever since the >> industrial revolution introduced the possibility of creating mechanical >> human beings, and >> Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein based on a laboratory-made semi-human >> creature. >> >> The paranoia generated by such things has only gathered momentum since >> then, so that today with the advent of powerful computers it has led to >> an overwhelming >> feeling of fear of a complete takeover by machines in the future. >> >> The reason is that robotic creatures can now also be imbued with >> artificial intelligence which rivals that of human beings. When robots >> supersede human >> beings there would no longer be any need for the Turing Test. >> >> Unless, of course, machines start testing us for intelligence instead. >> >> (published under editorials of the times of india) >> >> To unsubscribe send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> with the subject unsubscribe. >> >> To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, >> please visit the list home page at >> >> http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in >> > > > To unsubscribe send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with the subject unsubscribe. > > To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, > please visit the list home page at > http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in > To unsubscribe send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in
