On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 7:51 PM, Udhay Shankar N <[email protected]> wrote:
> forwarded from an ex-silklister. > > > Programmer Nigel Leck got tired of dealing with climate-change denial, > > so he wrote a chatbot to respond with arguments drawn from a database: > > > > http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/mimssbits/25964/?ref=rss > > > Reminds me of a lord who engaged someone to beat up vassals he didn't like. All jobs outsourced! An assumption that a viewpoint opposed to yours is "nonsense" is, indeed, patronizing and flawed. And I agree with all those comments down below, which point out what's wrong with the chatbot way of handling criticism, denial and negation. Deepa.
