>David Leary (dleary@trout.ab.umd.edu) wrote:
>: You didn't happen to see Nature a couple of weeks ago, did you? They had
>: a chimp on that understood commands such as "put the apple in the
>: refrigerator" and "take the vacuum outside." That's about as
>: sophisticated as any IF parser has gotten...
>
>But he takes 2 to 3 seconds to think about it because he's considering
>every vacuum he's ever seen, not just the ones in the room.
Oh my, that was a good one! I'm tempted to say he also hit himself on the head
due to some unintended game-state changes in a verDoXXX method, but now that I
think about it, that wouldn't be very funny at all.
Matthew