Pre-existing conditions

Let’s just make one thing clear: under John McCain’s health care plan, you can kiss your health care insurance coverage good-bye. As soon as employers can discontinue providing health care benefits they will. As soon as people have to go buy health care on their own, insurance companies will cherry Read more…

Meet Elbot!

I talked with an AI today. Salon had an article on a chatbot that was the most successful in fooling judges in the annual Loebner prize. So naturally I had to check it out. It’s name is Elbot. It’s by turns cheeky, philosophical, and obscure.  Really, really obscure. James Joyce Read more…