Tuesday, March 11, 2008

Artificial Intelligence?

I don't know about your computer, but my computer has very artificial intelligence! It's got a facility that allows me to find and replace words in a document. It's a very useful facility. Well ... usually.

Today, however, I wanted to replace 'Mark' with 'Lawrence.' It didn't occur to me that my computer would find and replace every example of m - a - r - k in my document.

So imagine how surprised I was to find 'misspelled' words like this:

"... her reLawrences were sensible and intelligent ..."

"I'm going to the superLawrenceet!"

The first word is suppose to be 'remarks' and the second word is supposed to be 'supermarket.'

As I said, my computer has very artificial intelligence. Thankfully, I realised what was happening before I engaged the find and replace facility to change 'Tim' to 'Liam' ... or imagine:

"Sorry, I can't stop! I'm running out of Liame ..."

"Perfect Liameing is essential!"

5 comments:

Ana said...

That is so funny. :) I love it when computers are so "intelligent". It makes me laugh!

Natalie said...

Ha-ha, that's funny! :D

Elizabeth said...

It made me laugh too - it's funny! :->

BrittLeigh said...

LOL!!

Elizabeth said...

Absolutely!! :->