From: Damien Broderick (d.broderick@english.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Sun Dec 17 2000 - 21:19:39 MST
At 08:07 PM 17/12/00 -0800, J. R. wrote:
>I don't think AIs would mimic our slips, because the glitch (in this case)
>is in the interface (keyboard), and for AI to make these syntactical errors
>would require replicating (in an AI android) the inherent deficiencies in
>human data entry capabilities.
Not so. The slip was in my brain - I knew I was about to write a word
ending with -ing, and mistakenly modified the one I was currently
generating to conform with that pattern. I don't *think* the problem is a
brain-hand lag; I suspect it's inevitable contagion in any sequential or
look-ahead syntactic process, which an AI would share, I'd imagine.
Damien Broderick
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