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- Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1992 20:32:04 -0500
- From: Mark Alan Lang <Elistan+@CMU.EDU>
- Subject: Re: Human Computers....
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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:
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- Hi there!
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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.... .
- >
- > Thanks in advance.
- > Ahmed
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- 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.
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