[rescue] octane question

[dave at cca.org]

jdboyd at cs.millersville.edu writes:

>I said personable, not personal.  It is a project that I've been kicking 
>around ideas for.  Basically, you would have a personal assitant that lives
>inside the computer.  It would be a synthesis of virtual character research,
>chatter bot research, voice and image recognition, speech synthesis, various
>AI systems for memory, forgetfullness, patern recognition (for recognizing
>work paterns, etc), affective computeing (or whatever they call that psuedo-
>emotional detection and synthesis stuff at the Media Lab), and probably a 
>thousand cheats hacked on for usefullnes.

Hey, that sounds great! If you can give it total control over the
ship's life support systems, I'll install it tomorrow!

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