UK urged to make computers more human

posted by  mneon (8)  15 months ago (blogs.msdn.com)

I ran across this aricle today: http://www.vnunet.com/news/1160755 about the British Computing Society encouraging UK researchers to investigate implementing more human-like behavior in computers.  The article talks some about cognitive processing, invesitgating mental disorders and intelligent robots.

But, surprisingly, speech was not mentioned.  I personally think that speech is the next natural interface with computers.  But does natural equal human-like?  In my opinion, yes.  But not as the current tec