Really, calling me names is not getting us anywhere. I'm not as "nieve" or as stupid as you two seem to think of me. And obviously missed my whole point of what I was trying to say. In that case, no amount of explaining will obviously help.
So be it. But name-calling is more childish. Couldn't you have just said you disagreed with what I was saying instead of going off like I'm the idiot?
As for the government, I don't care if all the politicians are, say, androids or whatever (I hope you don't misread that to think I'm serious - I'm just being sarcastic). I'm talking about programs like Ultra Hal Assistant, not whatever runs in some government computer. Sure some research labs can be light years ahead of what we have here.
But I'm talking about what we have here for us consumers to buy. What was have to look forward to.
But since I already see two people think of me as a total idiot, fine. Not a good way to have a conversation about these topics. I'm not interested in flame wars.
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I'm interested in exploring AIs and what we have available to us, and what we as hobbyists can do.
I don't care what scientists are doing. I'm sure some of it is really cool and all that. They have their fun, I'll have mine.
And Ultra Hal Assistant is NOT a joke. I think it has some potential to become a great tool, and even more. I've worked with and been studying some aspects of AI from the early 80s on. I got fascinated the first time when I was a teen and typed in the "ELIZA" BASIC program into a TRS-80 Model III and then started modifying it. I even did a port from my own memory what I remembered of it to C and/or QuickBasic 4.5 (forgot which as I used both) on a PC eventually (but lost the darn code). I might not know everything about Artificial Intelligence but I have my viewpoints and don't feel people should go calling people nieve and idiots just because of how they see things.
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