> From: Bob Mottram [mailto:fuzz...@gmail.com] > > 2009/1/12 Ben Goertzel <b...@goertzel.org>: > > AGI company A2I2 has released a product for automating call center > > functionality > > > We value your interest in our AGI related service. > > If you agree that AGI can have useful applications for call centres, > press 1 > > If our AGI repeatedly misinterprets your speech, because it was > trained on an Australian accent where all statements actually sound > like questions, press 2 > > If you want to listen to some Dire Straits track which is quite good > the first time but becomes increasingly annoying as it is played over > and over again for ten minutes, press 3 > > If you wish to be directly connected to our superintelligence, which > often gives a cryptic reply before hanging up, press 4 > > For all other enquiries, press 5 repeatedly in an infuriated manner. > >
Well when you press 4 to get to the superintelligence it's still some remote person on the other side of the world but this time they're doing text-to-speech that plays a semi-robotic voice, so technically it's still an Artificial General Intelligence HAR HAR HAR just kidding... John ------------------------------------------- agi Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/ Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=8660244&id_secret=126863270-d7b0b0 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
