Word: writer
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...that of the human authors. The standard method of judging whether a computer is conscious or not is whether it "acts conscious"--whether an observer would be unable to tell that its output came from a computer and not another human. Brutus.1 has by no means become a thinking writer, but if its product looks human to readers, it has somehow made up for whatever capacity of ingenuity it may lack...
...TIME health writer Christine Gorman says the proposal also could help instill a cultural change in the medical industry by making doctors feel it's OK to admit they make mistakes. "Medicine in the U.S. could be safer than it is," says Gorman, "because it doesn't take into account the fact that errors are going to occur, as inevitably they will. If you take that into account, you can do something about it." Doing something about it, according to the NAS, means creating some sort of federal regulatory agency, a kind of FAA for the practice of medicine...
...like Oedipus, to the less schematic aspects of life--loses everything else. "One gets used to things getting harder," he realizes. "One ceases to be surprised that what used to be as hard as hard can be grows harder yet." Disgrace is a mini-opera without music by a writer at the top of his form. Its bleak vision lingers, shattering any hope of a redemptive state of grace...
DIED. PAUL BOWLES, 88, individualistic Broadway composer and author of The Sheltering Sky; in Tangier, Morocco. A mentor to Allen Ginsberg and other Beat writers, Bowles delighted in rejecting American conventions. He lived as an expatriate--mostly in Tangier with his lesbian wife, writer Jane Bowles--and wrote disturbing tales of innocence corrupted by savagery...
EDITOR'S NOTE: TIME Daily writer Frank Pellegrini, at a ripe 27 years, has taken a leave of absence to join the Army Reserve. He is undergoing basic training - boot camp - and then will spend several months in an Army journalism school. Given the difficulty the forces are experiencing in recruiting young people these days, we think his experiences and impressions are worth sharing. Here is the seventh missive; others will be posted as they arrive...