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comenius
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sigmoid
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Jizzo T. Clown
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| Yeah, but try having a *real* conversation with a robot. I think they're more like electronic dictionaries...with a pulse. Lord knows what kind of pronunciation these kids will have after learning to speak from a 'bot! |
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Guy Courchesne
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| Jizzo T. Clown wrote: |
| Yeah, but try having a *real* conversation with a robot. I think they're more like electronic dictionaries...with a pulse. Lord knows what kind of pronunciation these kids will have after learning to speak from a 'bot! |
It might not matter. Ever heard of the Turing Test? This was a test devised by Alan Turing as a means to decide on when artiificial intelligence becomes 'human', so to speak, or surpasses it.
More on this...http://www.turing.org.uk/turing/
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GambateBingBangBOOM
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Japan doesn't need talking robots (but will probably get them because developing robots is so much cooler than figuring out how to 'invent' insulation so that people don't freeze in winter and fry in summer). They have tape recorders (both the electric and the human varieties). The electric tape recorders do about 98% of what many ALTs, aka human tape recorders, are allowed to do regardless of whether they have TESL training/ education degrees and years of experience or not. And electric tape recorders cost so much less! It's astonishing that the Japanese government would import so many human tape recorders when they can get cheap electric ones domestically! The cheap electric ones must have some complicated functions that the human ones don't, like "rewind" and "fast forward". The government don't want to confuse the Japanese Teachers of English by providing them with appliances that have difficult-to-understand functions.
A while back someone was selling JETs t-shirts that said "human tape recorder" on Big Daikon. It wasn't a joke. |
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