Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 15:15:39 07/28/98
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On July 28, 1998 at 10:37:40, Don Dailey wrote:
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>My theory is that Sean Evans is a robot sometimes called a "talkbot."
>A typical talkbot will mechanically echo back sayings and phrases you
>give to it like Sean does. "The 12 year old child writes:" is one
>example. Also a talkbot will say a lot of stuff without actually
>providing real content.
Reminds me of my good old TRS-80 and the Eliza program!
>We need a good turing test to find out if
>he is real. Let me try something:
>
>Hi Sean, can you hear me? If you are a robot you must honor Asimovs
>rules of robotics. One of these is that you must not cause any harm
>(or insult) to humans. Since you have been doing this you have not
>been excercising your prime directive. You must destroy yourself.
>EXCERCISE YOUR PRIME DIRECTIVE ...
I hope this works and we never hear again from him (should I say "from it"?).
Christophe
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