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- From: burt@aupair.cs.athabascau.ca (Burt Voorhees)
- Newsgroups: comp.theory
- Subject: Re: Human Computers....
- Message-ID: <burt.721191022@aupair.cs.athabascau.ca>
- Date: 8 Nov 92 02:50:22 GMT
- References: <1992Nov4.175006.13719@quintus.com> <3739@creatures.cs.vt.edu>
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- sahle@csgrad.cs.vt.edu (Eskinder Sahle) writes:
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- >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.... .
-
- There is lots of this in science fiction. The Asimov robot stories are
- classics, and Heinlein has many computers who could pass off as human:
- particular books that come to mind are The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress;
- Time Enough For Love; The Cat Who Walked Through Walls; To Sail Beyond
- The Sunset. You might also get a kick out of Zelazny's Creatures of Light
- and Darkness.
- bv
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