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- From: matwesx@gsusgi2.gsu.edu (William E. Sadler)
- Subject: Re: Human Computers....
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- Organization: Georgia State University
- References: <1992Nov4.175006.13719@quintus.com> <3739@creatures.cs.vt.edu>
- Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1992 14:48:55 GMT
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- sahle@csgrad.cs.vt.edu (Eskinder Sahle) writes:
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- >Hello all:
-
- >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.... .
-
- Ahmed,
-
- Try Robert A. Heinlein's "The moon is a harsh mistress" - You get to follow
- a super computer from its waking day to its dissolution.
-
-
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