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quoted 2 lines Would ou mind to tell me how you do work to receive all that ? Distribution

>Would ou mind to tell me how you do work to receive all that ? Distribution >company ?

The "Lance" project isnt really a person at all. Its a room full of computers with a complete database of all music ever written connected to a mailing list 'bot'... Im not sure who made him though, he seems almost life-like in his communication- its eerie ;P e Ernesto Ikerd, (817) 763-4795 Company Graphics, Dept 17, MZ-1156 Lockheed Martin Tactical Aircraft Systems Fort Worth, Texas

quoted 7 lines The "Lance" project isnt really a person at all. Its a room full of

> The "Lance" project isnt really a person at all. Its a room full of > computers with a complete database of all music ever written connected to > a mailing list 'bot'... Im not sure who made him though, he seems almost > life-like in his communication- its eerie > > ;P > e

LOL.... The best part of it is, when I met the "Lance" project's human incarnation, he seemed life-like there too! I did notice a slight latency in trainspotting conversation as he connected to the cluster of computers running the "McGannon" software - there was just a *little* lag when I asked "yeah, what was that matrix number?". I tell you, it was freaky. BVL -- Sigma6 Interactive Media / http://www.sigma6.com dj marathon: june 11 - Motor Detroit - in the Big Room

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

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:

quoted 6 lines The scary thing about all this is, if somebody really did want to use a

> 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

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 >