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Executive Secretary In Every Computer

Posted by timothy on from the almost-but-not-completely-unlike-tea dept.

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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  1. You guessed it by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I, for one, welcome our new robotic secretary overlords. thr0d p1st!

  2. Hand Jobs ... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    My Secretary does that.....and I ain't gonna give taht up!

    TUCCACHRIS

    XuL

  3. For once, I think this will be somewhat on topic by Rosonowski · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    In soviet russia, computer uses YOU!

    *groan*

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  4. yes!!! now she can play with my cyborg soldier by segment · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    Frankensteins in the Pentagon
    DAPRA's Creepy Bioengineering Program

    By Cheryl Seal
    25 August 2003

    DARPA Bioengineering Program Seeks to Turn Soldiers Into Cyborgs

    Not long ago, the public was stunned by the practical and moral idiocy of the Pentagon researcher (and unprosecuted war criminal) John Poindexter, who proposed a 'football pool' scheme for predicting terrorist attacks. We all laughed at such insanity and were relieved to see the scheme speedily deep-sixed. However, this bit of lunacy was just the lightest ice in the tip of the very large, very dark iceberg that the Pentagon's research program, better known as DARPA, has become.

    Just a few weeks before the bizarro world 'terrorism gambling' project was exposed, a DARPA (which stands for Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency)-sponsored conference was held in Washington, DC, that showcased the latest love child of the Bush Pentagon: military bioengineering. The euphemisms being used by the Pentagon to disguise the true nature of this research are being spread as thick as bondo and cheap paint at a used car lot. For example, the title of the conference was: 'Harvesting Biology for Defense Technology,' while the subheading of the section on human 'bioengineering' was entitled, rather ominously, in light of the military's history, 'Enhancing Human Performance.'

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    Home of Borg

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  5. IN SOVIET RUSSIA ... by torpor · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    ... computer use you!

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  6. Inevitable Soviet Russia Jokes by The+Great+Wakka · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    The idea is for computers to learn how to use with users

    IN SOVIET RUSSIA, computers use YOU!

    IN SOVIET RUSSIA, computers learn YOU

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    Everything is mainstream now.