Quote Originally Posted by rockzmom
Quote Originally Posted by NY TIMES
Let’s say you were lost in downtown Washington, D.C., and needed directions to the closest train station. Or you wanted to settle a bar bet on the average lifespan of a dolphin or whether it’s Alexander Hamilton or Thomas Jefferson on the two-dollar bill.
If we take out the question concerning the marketing tricks, the idea is really great. During the past two decades the Internet griped the entire Earth and sucked dry all the human knowledge while a human asking the Internet is still condemned to roam the web nooks with a hope which extinguishes with each new fork in the road. So the idea to put a kgb agent on the each crossroad is really fantastic way to manage the all the human knowledge. While our scientists can not create the machine behaving like a human our wheeler-dealers create the machines with a human inside. Like the Mechanical Turk (Automaton Chess Player) in the late 18th century. But opposite to the Turk when humans thirsted of the artificial mind, the kgb gives a human hand to the humans tired of the super stupid machines of the super progressive 21st century.