Talking To Computers?

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday February 23, 2011 @04:49PM from the what-are-you-doing-dave? dept.

merlock18 writes "Is it un-natural to talk to a computer? After discussing the outcome of the Jeopardy game with some colleagues, they seem to think it is mildly 'scary' to talk to a computer and have it competently talk back. Is this what everyone thinks? I was thinking to myself how much I would like to be able to even tell my computer to open programs by telling it vocally. A simple idea that I am fairly surprised is not common. Am I a minority in this one? Do people just not like the idea of talking (without cursing) to a computer, let alone have it act or reply? Would anyone else be interested in building their own mini-Watson, or is this just scary?"

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Re:Time heals all trends by Skidborg · 2011-02-23 16:56 · Score: 5, Interesting

Or the results of a recently fired employee raging through the office roaring "SELECT ALL! DELETE!"

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Unix Commands ... by Archangel+Michael · 2011-02-23 17:30 · Score: 5, Funny

gawk; grep; unzip; touch; strip; init,
uncompress, gasp; finger; find,
route, whereis, which, mount; fsck; nice,
more; yes; gasp; umount; head, halt,
renice, restore, touch, whereis, which,
route, mount,
more, yes, gasp, umount, expand, ping,
make clean; sleep

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