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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. moron softwar gangster payper liesense execrable.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
    rats, jumping out of the bullshipping industrIE? how manIE fauxking billyonerrors do we need? seems like won is already way too manIE.

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  2. Re:I apparently already have this function.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    faggot. fuck you.

  3. Re:think lewinsky by DynamiteNeon · · Score: 0, Troll

    I hope you were joking with the dune reference.

    Of course there would some lazy people, but there's lazy people now. What's your real point?

    I mean, I get tired of people who come in with the doomsday prophecies everytime someone mentions computer automation. It's not like people are going to just up and stop doing anything. If computers actually did take over most of the labor, it's not like we'd all just become brainless trolls who sit on our asses all day.

    Sure, there will be a few leeches who just take advantage of the situation and do nothing constructive with their time, but honestly, that's already happening and has always been the case.

    And, the reason why people are unable to learn and rely on the computer is a failing of the educational system, not the fault of the technology. I for one use my computer all the time to learn by doing research. If kids were taught how to think and learn on their own, the computer would be a tool just like it should be rather than just a game machine.

    If you want people to stop being stupid, make the government spend more money on education instead of on the military.