Space station gets HAL-like computer

[shift]

Quote:Clarissa\'s software runs on a laptop and astronauts interact with it using a headset, which helps screen out noise from the station. The program \"listens\" to everything astronauts say and analyses what to do in response using a \"command grammar\" of 75 commands based on a vocabulary of 260 words.

Full article at New Scientist SPACE: http://www.newscientistspace.com/channel...ech/dn7584

cool!

BTW, wasn\'t Clarissa already the name of the first AI chat-robot?

[tomcat ha]

Why can i only think of things like: i feel like watching porn and thus porno starts on the space stations tv.

O_o i amaze myself.

[viper]

God thats old technology.... Eurofighter has that as standard ...oh and so do Range Rovers

[shift]

Oh, well...
But, heck, it sounded like a really cool feature, you must admmit

(btw, didn\'t know Rovers had a KITT alla Knight Rider now)

[andius]

It doesn\'t even take up an entire room, errily lit with ambient red lighting =/ How cool can it be?

[Smithcraft]

Shift, the program that you might be thinking about would be Eliza.

SC

[Jognt]

funny how they all have female names lol

tomcat... that is one weird way of reasoning o_O

[shift]

Smithcraft Wrote:Shift, the program that you might be thinking about would be Eliza.

Bingo! True, that was the name. Thanks, Smithcraft :tup:

And, andius, your skepticism can\'t override the fact that it\'s... COOL!