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Subject: A real live HAL .Not too far away I'd suggest!

Author: allan johnson

Date: 02:00:56 05/06/01


Saw an interesting story on tv tonight.A professor Alfred Brooks,an ep-pat
aussie working in the US has created a robot that can genuinely learn. In
fact some of the scientists get so scared of the speed it learns at they turn
it off.It didn't say whether the learning process was accumulative or how it
happened.Myself I find it both scary but also exciting.Anyway the point is how
long before we have a HAL amongst us.Yes I know that some chess programmes learn
but not in the way the robot Brooks has invented does.
 Stephen King is so impressed he's planning to construct a movie on the
inventure.Just thought I throw this news in for a bit of discussion.
Cheers Al
 Oh by the way does anyone know about Richard Harris's Awakening tapes?



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