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- From: is@groucho.dev.uga.edu (Bob Stearns)
- Newsgroups: comp.theory
- Subject: Re: Human Computers....
- Message-ID: <1992Nov9.153146.16018@athena.cs.uga.edu>
- Date: 9 Nov 92 15:31:46 GMT
- References: <1992Nov4.175006.13719@quintus.com> <3739@creatures.cs.vt.edu>
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- In article <3739@creatures.cs.vt.edu> sahle@csgrad.cs.vt.edu (Eskinder Sahle) writes:
- >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.... .
- >
- >Thanks in advance.
- >Ahmed
-
- The canonical, classical answer to this question is Heinlein's
- _The_Moon_is_a_Harsh_Mistress. Please note that McCaffrey's _The_Ship
- _Who_Sang, referenced earlier is not really a computer but a cyborg.
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