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Article #315Re: Human Computers....
From: Mark Alan Lang
Date: Sun, 08 Nov 1992 01:32
Date: Sun, 08 Nov 1992 01:32
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Excerpts from netnews.comp.robotics: 7-Nov-92 Human Computers.... by Eskinder Sahle@csgrad.cs pl.na nasa slab. > Hello all: Hi there! > I need some help.... I'm looking for examples in fiction literature > of super sophisticated communicative computers a la HAL. That is, > computers that talk and communicate like humans. I'm not so much > interested in those instances where it's a robot that cannot be > distinguished from a human being as in computers sounding human without > being almost totally human-like.... . > > Thanks in advance. > Ahmed You might want to check out a book called _When H.A.R.L.I.E Was One, Release 2.0_ by David Gerrold. Very good as both a science-fiction story and as a speculative paper about the future of computers, IMHO. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- | Mark Lang | ml5t+@andrew.cmu.edu | | elistan+@cmu.edu | elistan@drycas.club.cc.cmu.edu | -----------------------------------------------------------------------
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Organization: Freshman, MCS general, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!cis.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uwm.edu!rpi!batcomputer!cornell!rochester!cantaloupe.srv.cs.cmu.edu!crabapple.srv.cs.cmu.edu!andrew.cmu.edu!ml5t+ Newsgroups: sci.logic,comp.ai.philosophy,comp.robotics,comp.databases.theory,comp.theory Message-ID: <Qez6sI200iVgI2bYwP@andrew.cmu.edu> Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1992 20:32:04 -0500 From: Mark Alan Lang <Elistan+@CMU.EDU> Subject: Re: Human Computers.... In-Reply-To: <3739@creatures.cs.vt.edu> Lines: 25