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True, some of the test propositions are confusingly worded, like "Marijuana is the same as a drink." (The same? How?) But the only way I ever screwed up was by being too clever. My strategy had been to give the "right" answers, but not so blatantly right that it would look as if I was faking out the test. Then, at a Wal-Mart in Minnesota, the personnel manager informed me I had got a couple of answers "wrong," apparently forgetting that she had introduced the test by telling me there were "no right or wrong answers, just whatever...
...song, the technology fails miserably. Apparently the slang didn't fit its preprogrammed language bank. It gets even stickier when computers try to talk back to humans. Most speech recognition devices are "idiot savants," says William Weisel, an industry analyst based in southern California. "They can make them very clever on very narrow subjects. It's not artificial intelligence but embedded intelligence." In other words, it will be a while before computers can chat as well as my brother - when he was three...
...escape but has inadequate fighting skills. Her opponent materializes: the Armored Lizard. Damn! My dolphin is no match for its steely jaws and impenetrable skin. Next, I set loose the Blade Fly, whose razor pincers make for nasty weapons. I prepare for a fight. But this enemy is too clever: he has set a hidden trap that swallows the fly. "Game over," says Hiroaki Namikata. "You suck." I consider wringing his neck but decide this would upset his mom. "You'll get better in time," Hiroaki says, as he slurps down his lemon soda...
Unfortunately for Clever, the run ended a meet too soon. He placed ninth in the javelin at the NCAA Outdoor Championships in Eugene, Ore. on Wednesday with a performance of 67.82 meters...
...ninth-place finish was an improvement over his 14th-place finish at NCAAs for each of the previous two years. But Clever, who had been ranked fifth nationally based on his Heptagonal meet record performance of 74.06 meters, had been hoping for more...