Executive Secretary In Every Computer

An anonymous reader writes "BusinessWeek Online just ran an interview with a researcher from Sandia National labs whose team has developed an alternative approach to artificial intelligence. They have come up with a software program that models a computer user's behavior and gives the user advice, corrects his errors or saves files according to the user's own logic. The idea is for computers to learn how to use with users -- instead of vice versa. The software has already been tested with air traffic controllers."

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Like we need another Clippy or MS Bob

[3terrabyte]

I guess this is news. It has been almost a year since we've been promised smart computers to 'help do our jobs better'.

I'll believe it after FORD endorses an electrical car, or we finally get our hovercars.

Re:Oh. Dear. Ghod.

[NFNNMIDATA]

Don't give them any ideas. This is exactly this kind of crap they will implement in lieu of fixing security and other bugs. Heck, I bet it's already on the plate for longhorn. I can't imagine a world where microsoft wouldn't be all over this.