Machines to terminate human intellect

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    Depends what you call intellect. Anonymous -- 18/02/08

    Can you recount that last call to some big corporation where the phone was answered by a machine trying to pass as human? This diatribe only seems to fool numbskulls who never learnt the value of human interaction.

    Some people even think that milk and eggs are made in a factory.

    i guess you have never called Anonymous -- 18/02/08 (in reply to #320095738)

    Australian Health Management or UniTab? they have simple speech recognition systems that are often better than humans operators.

    http://tinyurl.com/33rj6y

    Predictable albert davies -- 18/02/08 (in reply to #320095741)

    Simple speach recognition for simple folk - no intellect required.

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