In article <5d7buq$qe7@percy.cs.bham.ac.uk>
A.Sloman@cs.bham.ac.uk "Aaron Sloman" writes:
> This may be of interest to some readers of these newsgroups
>
> I've just been told that a discussion on machines and emotions which I
> did for the BBC2 program The NET will be shown next Monday night 10th
> Feb at 11.15pm
>
> The recorded discussion took about two hours, but will probably be
> compressed to 10 or 15 minutes, so I've no idea what will be included.
>
> I understand it will include extracts from a demonstration of Ian
> Wright's early "minder" program (simulated nursemaid looking after a
> collection of babies, under varying degrees of stress, written in Pop-11
> in 1994).
It will be interesting to see whether this turns out to be
(as suggested elsewhere) a natural illustration of the thesis
that "AI" is, in the final analysis, science & technology as
we know it.
--
David Longley
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