From: Tony B. Csoka (csoka@itsa.ucsf.edu)
Date: Sun Jun 08 1997 - 17:08:13 MDT
Yes, but how much should we pay them :-)
Tony B. Csoka
> In a message dated 08/06/97 21:21:56, you write:
>
> > Friday night I was listening to a Bio prof talk about the monkeys he
> > uses in his research. They are rugged and damn smart, and are trained
> > to help run each new experiment.
> >
> > If any brand of AI researcher had a computer that good, they'd
> > probably think they were very close to the holy grail. But here we do
> > have such computers, and we don't put them to much use besides
> > studying their brains.
> >
> > So why is it exactly that we haven't trained such monkeys to do real
> > jobs around in our society? Couldn't they be trained to be security
> > guards, to sweep streets, to wash cars, or to run machines in
> > factories? Yes language is important for many jobs, but for all jobs?
> > Sure they like to be with each other, but couldn't teams of monkeys
> > work together?
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