Saturday, December 11, 2004

Consult the Oracle, or WWGD?

Until very recently, if you were to search for "Bush's foreign friends" on Google, you would have gotten this page: "Zero results. Did you mean 'Bush's former foreign friends'?" A much more reasonable search. If you search it now, there still aren't any foreign friends, but you will find scores of people like me marvelling at the fact.

If you find yourself in a pinch and need some cryptic, oracular, double-edged advice, I suggest consulting the great ersatz mind of Google. Douwe Osinga of Zurich has put together an interesting algorithm called "Google Talk". For example, if I type "Roger Stahl is" into Google Talk, I get "Roger Stahl is being hunted by the police. You can be a woman soon." Thanks, Google! Consider it done. That'll throw 'em off the trail.

Check out his other projects as well, which include various AI simulators and tests for whether "peace" or "war" will prevail in great cybermind.




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