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Subject:Re: RE : Can an AI bot write technical documents? From:Chris Borokowski <athloi -at- yahoo -dot- com> To:techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com Date:Tue, 14 Aug 2007 11:58:27 -0700 (PDT)
Like an autistic patient, a bot produces on-topic non-sequiturs.
This is a non-trivial problem to solve. Even if a bot can sense
context, it is hard for it to limit context. For example, if I ask a
room of engineers "What direction shall we take?" the average bot is
unsure if I mean national politics, species-level genetic enhancements,
or what's for lunch.
> It all winds down to canned responses. A parrott-like algorithm
> that is unfeeling, blind, deaf, dumb, that cannot taste nor smell.
> A stone. We humans use automatic responses too, yet we can
> choose not to, or shift into other ==> semantic <== fields.
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