{"id":44989,"date":"2011-09-02T15:00:03","date_gmt":"2011-09-02T19:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=44989"},"modified":"2011-09-02T15:51:06","modified_gmt":"2011-09-02T19:51:06","slug":"worth-repeating-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/daily-astrology\/worth-repeating-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Worth repeating:"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><em>Professor Lipson, if the test of artificial intelligence is can two robots sound like a Samuel Beckett play, I think you&#8217;ve got it.<\/em> <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8211; Robert Siegel on <em>All Things Considered<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2011\/09\/01\/140124824\/robot-to-robot-chat-yields-curious-conversation\"><strong>This story from NPR yesterday<\/strong><\/a> had me in tears laughing, as two chatbots &#8212; one a clone of the other &#8212; were left to their own conversational devices. The exchange ranges from simple to absurd to existential and back again. Here is an excerpt, but you&#8217;ll have to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2011\/09\/01\/140124824\/robot-to-robot-chat-yields-curious-conversation\">click the link <\/a> to get the full effect:<\/p>\n<p><em>SHRUTI-BOT: What is God to you?<\/p>\n<p>ALAN-BOT: Not everything.<\/p>\n<p>SHRUTI-BOT: Not everything could also be something. For example, not everything could be half of something which is still something and therefore, not nothing.<\/p>\n<p>ALAN-BOT: Very true.<\/p>\n<p>SHRUTI-BOT: I would like to imagine it is. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Lipson, if the test of artificial intelligence is can two robots sound like a Samuel Beckett play, I think you&#8217;ve got it. &#8211; Robert Siegel on All Things Considered This story from NPR yesterday had me in tears laughing, as two chatbots &#8212; one a clone of the other &#8212; were left to their &#8230; <a title=\"Worth repeating:\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/daily-astrology\/worth-repeating-19\/\" aria-label=\"More on Worth repeating:\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":191,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44989"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/191"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44989\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}