Comment: How serious is this? (Score 0) 46
I'm a confirmed geek, an Australian, I love good TV and I've barely heard of these services. I get the feeling that this is a publicity grab.
Comment: Re:It's not just specialization, there is also fea (Score 1) 264
He talks mostly in this article about how the focus has been on developing specialized software for solving specific problems and with specialized goals, rather than focusing on general AI. And it's true that this is part of what is holding general AI back. But there is also something that Loebner is perhaps loathe to discuss, and that's the underlying (and often unspoken) matter of the *fear* of AI.
Does that have anything to do with the progress of research? I doubt that AI researchers themselves are afraid of spawning a 'true' AI, I would think it has more to do with the practicality of the technology and resources available.
Comment: Re:Chuck Norris (Score 4, Funny) 280
Has 110% of hist storage in SSD.
2005 4chan is that way ---->
Comment: Re:How (Score 3, Funny) 654
Try googling Google Image Search...
Hey dude, I heard you like Google so I.... aaah, screw it. I can't stand that meme anyway.
Comment: Re:Illegal???? (Score 4, Funny) 212
The song "Yvan Eht Nioj" had a similar problem I heard.
Comment: Re:Illegal???? (Score 5, Funny) 212
In other words what you're saying is that if the roads in Nazi Germany were more dangerous that'd make the Holocaust ok.
Wait... did you just invoke Godwin's Law AND make a car analogy in the same post? Is this a definition of a perfect
Comment: Re:Irrefutable fact (Score 5, Funny) 386
I sense an argument along the lines of Kirk > Picard coming up.
Comment: Re:If Julian Assange gets elected (Score 1) 204
Myxomatosis... I give up. It's late here in Australia, I vainly hope for some forgiveness. Iknew that looked wrong, even for a sydlexic... err, dyspepsic. Whatever.
Comment: Re:If Julian Assange gets elected (Score 2) 204
approximately... dammit. Unless we're talking about an insult to rabbits and mixamitosis... or ximatoWTF if I'm dyslexic.
Comment: Re:If Julian Assange gets elected (Score 1) 204
Could you please elucidate the exact claims of 'PBS'? 15 million people as a total of Australian population would place those claims at appromiximately 1989. Perhaps Australians should blame everything you say now on Reagan/G Bush (the early one)?