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Date:Mon Feb 4 23:47:02 1997 
Subject:Re: Discusion on machines and emotions BBC2 Monday 10th 11.15pm 
From:David Longley 
Volume-ID:970204.02 

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