Re: The Truth About "Tim Byars"

Lloyd Wood (L.Wood@surrey.ac.uk)
Thu, 2 Apr 1998 22:47:37 +0100 (BST)


On Thu, 2 Apr 1998, CobraBoy wrote:

> Date: Thu, 2 Apr 1998 13:10:31 -0800
> From: CobraBoy <tbyars@earthlink.net>
> To: L.Wood@surrey.ac.uk, ernest@alumni.caltech.edu
> Cc: FoRK-noarchive@xent.ics.uci.edu
> Subject: Re: The Truth About "Tim Byars"
>
> At 9:29 AM -0800 4/2/98, Lloyd Wood came up with the following:
>
> > On Tue, 31 Mar 1998, Dr. Ernest N. Prabhakar wrote:
> >
> > > We couldn't simulate a normal human being, but we could replicate the
> > > behavior of a typical mailing list member. We were able to make use of
> > > the Maledicta[7] database of obnoxious phrases, and set it up to respond
> > > to email with a random insult.
> >
> > Judging from the large sample set of email replies received from that
> > AI-program-written-in-BASIC of yours, the Maledicta database is
> > woefully lacking in good, intelligent, inventive, put-downs. No Noel
> > Coward, for one.
> >
> > L.
>
> You have a ready wit. Let me know when it's ready.

See what I mean?

L.

>
> Tim
> --
>
> Go sell crazy somewhere else,
> we're full up here. ...Nicholson
>
> <> tbyars@earthlink.net <>
>

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