Yeah, I would like to think that say Lance is just an AI program which
parses a unix mail file every 5 minutes for "Who" <artistname> "?" and
runs a Perl script searching for the <artistname> variable in its'
database file and pipes it to mail. Then when Lancebot sees labelnames,
years and artists, he compares the data with that which has been OCR'ed in
from his P O Box of weekly promo copies and adds missing information.
I'll test this by sending him my latest tunes with the label written in
OCR-indecipherable cursive scribble and then send him email and see what
results.
Maybe Lancebot is a prototype for a prog soon to be on the market in
dj-shops called "TrainsBot"...?
Maybe we can corrupt Lancebot's database by adding "/dev/null" or "EOF"
to the subject lines of msgs.
Solenoid
On Fri, 11 Jun 1999, Andrew Duke Cognition/In The Mix wrote:
quoted 13 lines you wrote "andrew duke is an android too, I think":> you wrote "andrew duke is an android too, I think":
> this does not compute...what's wrong?...my mind is slipping...
> this program will self destruct in five seconds... ;) andrew :)
>
> Tom Millar wrote:
>
> > The scary thing about all this is, if somebody really did want to use a
> > discussion list to try and pass the Turing test with their AI program,
> > this would be the place to do it.
> > Andrew Duke is an android too, I think.
> >
> > Tom
>