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- From: lsmith@peca.cs.umn.edu (Lance "Squiddie" Smith)
- Subject: Re: Shouting at robots
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- Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 23:12:20 GMT
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- In <JMC.93Jan2141039@SAIL.Stanford.EDU> jmc@SAIL.Stanford.EDU (John McCarthy) writes:
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- >I hear my 7 year old son shouting "Stop! Stop!" at his robot. You
- >might consider shouting at a toy robot a singularly futile exercise.
- >However, the robot, manufactured in China for a Japanese company and
- >sold at Radio Shack, uses voice recognition technology licensed from an
- >American company.
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- >It just isn't very obedient when shouted at.
-
- Hmmm,
-
- Never shout at a robot
- Not even once or twice
- The robot will not notice
- and shouting isn't nice
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