| CGI-Quality said: Again, will someone show me where it was proven to be "smoke & mirrors"? |
Look, I'm guessing you are about 12-14 years old by the inability to analyse what you saw of that (absolutely shitty) Milo demo at last E3. I am old enough to have lived through the "Eliza" storm many, many years ago (I even had the software running on my Pineapple ][). It was fun to play with the program and to watch how the tabloids declared "The End of Psychoanalysis". At that time, this was somewhat understandable as most people had no idea what a computer really was and what it actually did under the hood (which was, at that time, mostly the hood of an Apple ][). Google "Weizenbaum" and "Eliza" to get the story about that program, and how shocked and irritated Weizenbaum was about the reaction to his simple stunt.
Comes Microsoft with Milo at E3, and I see the same thing happening again. The same stunt, (possibly) the same software algorithms (with a lot more memory space to burn, Eliza ran in an 48kB Apple). But with a cute 3D interface, and the crowd goes wild, as it did in those old times with Eliza. I somewhat understand the reaction of the tabloids to the demo, since that is the function of tabloids/FOXNews. What I fail to understand is the reaction of the fanboys which I'd have assigned a better knowledge of analysing what they see a computer doing. Apparently I am wrong here and one can still fool a seemingly unlimited number of people with simple software, as long as the software "looks cute".
