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The Virtual Teacher
Roland Piquepaille writes "Researchers from Illinois and Florida are developing a networking system which will create virtual representations of real people to improve our knowledge. They will use artificial intelligence and natural language processing software to enable us to interact with these avatars. The goal of the project, sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF), is to give us the possibility to interact with these virtual representations as if they were the actual person, complete with the ability to understand and answer questions. We should see the results at the beginning of 2008 — if the researchers succeed."
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It's not that understandable, actually. He wasn't spamming, he was summarizing articles people found interesting. There's just a contingent of people on Slashdot are grouchy about anyone making money. Most of us don't really care if the guy gets a buck or two.
For that matter, how is it less objectionable for Slashdot itself to make ad money? They don't even bother finding the articles, or doing anything useful with them in any way. Roland at least provided something for the clicks. All we get here is inane commentary which, lets face it, is just a time sink for those of us who can't find anything better to do.
Slashdot - where whining about luck is the new way to make the world you want.
Of course I could be nobody but Mr. Piquepaille. It's not like I'm somebody who just appreciates the summaries he writes of otherwise lengthy articles. Yeah, it must be a conspiracy. Oh, but wait! How do we know that you're not actually Roland Piquepaille writing as SuperBanana, putting up anti-Piquepaille posts in order to create controvery, and hence publicity?
Wait, wait. I get it. Somebody posting as "SuperBanana" is far less anonymous than somebody posting as Anonymous Coward. Whew! It's a good thing we figured that out. For a moment there I actually thought that you might have had a point. But then I remembered that you're just a sour cunt, jealous because Mr. Piquepaille provides a damn useful service to a great many people. Yeah, that's right. He lives a productive life, while you waste away in your parents' basement, stroking your semi-flaccid cock to movie stills of Carrie Fisher.
Geez, you must give Taco one helluva reacharound.
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