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Thanks Suzy, will check it out - I love this kind of thing.
For some reason that I cannot fathom, I have a real weak spot for the whole "Pinocchio" story (the machine wanting to be human, or at least, treated as such). Spielberg/Kubrick's "A.I.", Bicentennial Man, 2001 (HAL), etc nearly had me in tears first time I saw them, because of that aspect.
I'll see if this doco makes me re-assess things. I remember reading an article from some early AI programmers. Their goal was to emulate the life and times of a sea cucumber! Sounds like they weren't aiming too high, until they explained how many hundreds of thousands of code lines went into it. In the end, the main point wisdom they had was: "You never appreciate a stupid person, until you try and create one".
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