7 posts tagged “funny”
This is self explanatory :)
I saw this video on YouTube, and it's so funny that I thought I'd post it here.
"EX-TER-MIN-ATE!" -- Daleks
After the entertaining meetings of great minds with iGod, I was reminded of a slightly less sophisticated but very interesting set-up with AOL Instant messenger called AOLiza back in 2001. The transcripts for this little experiment are still hosted at the Fury.com site.
The Back Story: In 1966 Joseph Weizenbaum at M.I.T. wrote ELIZA, a famous program that simulates a Rogerian psychoanalyst by taking excerpts from the subject's comments and posing questions back to the subject. While not a giant leap in AI programming, ELIZA (named after Eliza Dolittle in My Fair Lady) showed that some semblance of 'awareness' could be synthesized simply by using input pattern recognition, combined with predefined phrases. Some people claim that ELIZA was the first program to pass the Turing Test, fooling subjects into thinking it was an actual person.
Enter AOLiza: Using a publicly available Perl version of ELIZA, a Mac with nothing better to do than play psychoanalyst, a few applescripts, and an AOL Instant Messenger account that has a high rate of 'random' people trying to start conversations, I put ELIZA in touch with the real world. Every few days I'll put up the latest 'patients.' Names have been changed to protect the... well, everyone.
I think by the far the most intriguing of the conversations is number sixty. Enjoy...
It's only fair to say that there is some pretty colourful language on those links, so be warned!
I was reading a news article online and noticed this rather amusing story that originally appeared in The Daily Telegraph in Australia:
Sausage roll blamed for worker having day off
THE train now due on platform two is running 15 minutes late because the driver has been blinded by a sausage roll.
That's the sort of message commuters could expect if CityRail was honest about the reasons for lateness.
There then follows a whole number of excuses. Out of the whole article my favourite bit was this:
Nearly a dozen drivers and guards stepped straight off trains unaware there was no platform.
You see, maybe the company should invest in training their staff to be more aware of the state of platformness in locations where trains commonly stop... (Yes, I am aware that I just made up a word.)
It's very clever the way they used Sims 2, Sim City 4 and various other tools to produce it!
The downloadable version, as well as some hilarious outtakes, can be found at the Zarathustra Studios website.
This is something I got forwarded, but is horribly funny. It's a bit rude, and probably not safe for work!
"Purely in the interests of science, I have replaced the word "wand" with "wang" in the first Harry Potter Book. Let's see the results..."
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