I am becoming increasingly suspicious that IMM is in fact a modified version of the Eliza program, and not a real person. This would explain the constant irrationality (programmed in), as well as the somewhat incoherent responses and wandering topics. The knee-jerk reactions are another clue.
For those of you who don't know about Eliza, see:
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particular, look at the sample conversation with Eliza, and see the similarity in the incoherent replies when moderately confused....!
A half-wit who has 15 computers in house said the above. Make your mind up time.. he should be reported to the council and forced to have therapy. A bet he is a Treckie.
I think he came out of the same factory as the Bliar mark III model, but is altgother cheaper and more amusing due to the naive simplicity of his firmware.
You see that is a fairly smart piece of coding. The sofwtare has identfied a statemnet containing the words 'IMM' and 'program'; and is programmed to make a snide remark about computers....viz
But then it all falls apart weakly, as the software reverts to a pre stored element from its 'techie sneer' database.
In particular its inability to respond to a post cntaining more than 12 lines or 200 words with anything except
Is a clear sign of programming done on the cheap. AND in a hurry. I means they must have run out of ROM after the sneer data was burned in, because random selection from e.g.
would have been infintely more convincing.
Probably with only an estimated 16K of ROM to run the thing - which suggests its a discless portable - there was only room to program in the sneer database, a few frgamented statements about combi boilers, and land reform culled from some pamphlet or other.
In fact I am not even sure the combi boiler stuff is IN ROM, I think its really a small gadget with a few URLS in it pointing to manufactureres web sites, and some fairly naff software that rearranges what's there in almost-english in order to give it the superficial apperance of pseudo-originality.
... and of course it also explains why the recommended heating solution changes month by month - a simple timer does that, hooked up to a cut and paste engine with web access....
I do believe that there is a stack pointer problem though, because every so often the LVT subroutine is run, and keeps going until the watchdog timer catches it and reboots.
Do you have the uniform too? It is great for the many fatties here, as they do not need to put a cushion up their sweater to have a Cpn Kirk pot belly.
I think there is some primitive logic in there as well. Probably that bit was coded by a junior programmer who patched in a mod
IF (total heat required > 1 combi) THEN use INT(Total heat required/LARGEST COMBI)+1.
Whreas a more experineced programmer would have realiseed that something like
IF (total heat required > 1 combi) THEN GOSUB Search_for_alternative_approach();
would be a far more elegant apprcah, but of course the subroutine itself would have involved more computing power and memory than IMM patently has available. And would need to incorporate more random web searches and parse engines.
And be somewhat beyond the design brief, which was patently NOT to offer useful advice, but merely to give the specious illusion of so doing.
Turing test etc. If the program were actually able to fully emulate a human intelligence, then it might as well be one for all we know. The fact that it patently falls down and retreats into when its ability to respond coherently is exceeded, is, I would postulate strong evidence of its true nature.
It has not been using that rejoinder much of late. Possibly it has sensed an internal inconsistency with criticising others for having too many computers?
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