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- From: arodgers@dcs.qmw.ac.uk (Angus H Rodgers)
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- Subject: Re: Human Computers....
- Message-ID: <1992Nov8.202538.5470@dcs.qmw.ac.uk>
- Date: 8 Nov 92 20:25:38 GMT
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- In <Qez6sI200iVgI2bYwP@andrew.cmu.edu>
- Mark Alan Lang <Elistan+@CMU.EDU> writes:
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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:
-
- > Hi there!
- >
- >> 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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- "Michaelmas", by Algis Budrys? (Not quite sure of this reference.)
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