Re: The Turing test tells us nothing really.

And you know there is a lot of work, going on right now in this field.
People are tackling it from all angles. You have the little wheeled
robots on Robot Wars on the telly, you of course have industrial
robotics, and SONY's offerings, you have a myriad of small toys, and
some larger onbes as well, which some may have seen in videos in Kazaa.

I can picture a conversation in the not so distant future, in some
computershop, at the back, in their robot department...

"Does it have the Sibian attachment?"
"Yes it comes in various sizes, you have the 'Polar Swim', the
'Yakimoto', the
'Honky White Boy'...pausing....beyond here there are extra frieght
charges"
"keep going, I have air miles"
"The Shaquille O'Neil"...

and you know, I think, that quite a bit of development has occurred in
this area,
apart form the rest of the actual 'body' of work going on in other
sectors.

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