BelchFire Posted February 19, 2004 Report Posted February 19, 2004 (edited) Robotics Institute student Mark Michalowski ... looks over the kiosk where 'Valerie', the new Roboceptionist at Carnegie Mellon University operates from before the indroduction of the school's latest foray into interactive robots on Wednesday, Feb. 18, 2004 in Pittsburgh. Students and professors from the computer science and drama departments created the personna that greets people and gossips on the phone. Instead of just giving out directions or telling visitors about the weather, Valerie is programmed with her own personality.From:http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=stor...ot_receptionist In the future, writing will be more than simply putting words on paper (though, like film photography, I'm sure it will never go out). Writing will provide scripts and substance behind electronic interactions of all sorts, from matrix style uploading to artificial personalities like the one in the article above. Of course, that in itself would make a good story too. Thoughts? Edited February 23, 2004 by Zool
Valdar and Astralis Posted February 23, 2004 Report Posted February 23, 2004 Heh, "The Great Automatic Grammatizator" by Ronald Dahl jumps to mind, for some reason though it's not exactly the same.
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