http://radio.weblogs.com/0105910/2003/08/15.html
Previous murmurings about the degree to which humans may be usurped by computers may gain some volume with this, a report on a Sandia Labs experimental "congnitive" system, which interacts with users in a radically different manner from the computers to which we are accustomed.
Apart from the sheer potential power of such a system [and the danger of extrapolating something like this to politics, where the "axioms" involved are much "mushier"], one wonders at what point the machine will no longer need to collaborate with the human at all -- it might prefer collaborating with another machine!
Posted by jho at August 18, 2003 01:29 PM