Re: The Imitation Game (was: AI)

From: Dan Fabulich (daniel.fabulich@yale.edu)
Date: Sun Dec 19 1999 - 23:31:26 MST


'What is your name?' 'Spike Jones.' 'Do you deny having written the
following?':

> Hey you know, if we could get a cute enough "don't kill me" applet,
> we could run some background process during the time the cute
> thing is begging for its life. This could make available huge amounts
> of compute time that would otherwise be wasted. Great idea,
> for those of us who are background processing fans. {8^D spike

That was actually my OTHER thought, though I'm not sure the capacity to
run a background process is worth the trouble, philosopically speaking. ;)

-Dan

      -unless you love someone-
    -nothing else makes any sense-
           e.e. cummings



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