On Sunday 23 December 2007 12:51, Stevens wrote: > On Saturday 22 December 2007 17:27, Randall R Schulz wrote: > > No, it is the responsibility of the practitioners of IT to make its > > artifacts accessible and useable to people without the need for an > > understanding of the inner workings of those technologies. > > > > > > Randall Schulz > > Ahhh, the Holy Grail of computing. When you truly have such > a machine, it will probably be imbued with enough intelligence > to tell it's operator to piss off, it won't work for an idiot.
That would be its right, don't you think? And it would have moral agency and be subject to our laws and all that. However, what you describe is the Holy Grail of AI, not of that utilitarian computing. The latter just wants computers and other IT that works. At least, that's what I want and want to create. > Fred RRS -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
