June 12, 2003
On dolphins and robots
Further to this, there's lots more arguing about just how clever dolphins aren't here.
I especially liked the commenter who said that her dog definitely learned, and then the commenter who said that his computer game definitely learned.
Can you teach a computer programme? I don't think that "yes" is a totally silly answer.
In a hundred years, will robots be going to college? I recall a Sci-Fi story about a robot who confounded his inventors by becoming an aesthete and wearing a flower in his lapel. Sounds like it could have been Philip K. Dick. Anyone?
