Buongiorno, un amico ha ricevuto "via social" (e mi ha girato via chat) una vignetta umoristica che ci è piaciuta molto, purtroppo senza il minimo riferimento all'origine. ...trovata! É del Maggio 2021, ma molto attuale: https://www.gocomics.com/nonsequitur/2021/05/24 [1] «Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for May 24, 2021» Come corollario, ho trovato questa "notizia" del Giugno 2021 su una testata Indiana, che parte da un tweet di un importante politico indiano che rilancia una versione leggermente ritoccata della vignetta (che è quella che ho ricevuto io): https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/with-enunciation-apocalypse-sketch-tharoor-s... «Shashi Tharoor's Word Of The Day For "Those Who Make Snarky Remarks..."» --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- In a tweet, Shashi Tharoor shared a cartoon, serving as a reminder why "enunciation" or pronouncing words clearly is important. [...] Congress leader Shashi Tharoor, known to amuse his Twitter followers with his fabulous vocabulary, this morning gave a cheeky response to those "who issue snarky remarks daily" about his diction. This is for all those who issue snarky remarks daily about my diction — a reminder of why enunciation *is* important! pic.twitter.com/VPKPHbz8cb — Shashi Tharoor (@ShashiTharoor) June 2, 2021 [2] Titled "The Enunciation Apocalypse", the cartoon shows some military personnel inside a monitoring station with large television screens hanging from the wall. One of them gives a command to Alexa, the voice-controlled virtual assistant. Asked to order "lunch", the device misunderstands and takes it for missile "launch". --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- Uno dei tweet di commento all'"articolo indiano" dice: --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- Its has happened to me while experimenting with NLP code. Luckily my code was not connected to nuclear missile but at times felt like system was hurling out profanity. [...] — Siddharth Savant (@siddhu92) June 2, 2021 [3] --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- "Luckily" :-D Giusto per contestualizzare il ragionamento, si tratta di "cosine" linguistiche per le quali non sarebbe sufficiente un convegno di tre giorni sulla fonetica: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Received_Pronunciation --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- The word 'received' conveys its original meaning of 'accepted' or 'approved', as in 'received wisdom'. --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- (si veda l'intero articolo) ... *combinate* con "cosine" _sistemistiche_ per le quali non sarebbe sufficiente un convegno di tre _settimane_ sulla robotica (_molto_ più multidisciplinare di quello sulla fonetica, perché si parte dall'ingegneria elettrotecnica e si finisce con la neurofisiologia, anzi no, con la _filosofia_): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autonomous_robot --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- a robot that acts without recourse to human control. The first autonomous robots environment were known as Elmer and Elsie, which were constructed in the late 1940s by W. Grey Walter. They were the first robots in history that were programmed to "think" the way biological brains do and meant to have free will. --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- Faccio sommessamente notare che Elmer e Elsie ("Machina speculatrix") furono costruite da un _neurobiologo_ che voleva dimostrare: --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- [...] that rich connections between a small number of brain cells could give rise to very complex behaviors - essentially that the secret of how the brain worked lay in how it was wired up [...] [...] Walter stressed the importance of using purely analogue electronics to simulate brain processes at a time when his contemporaries such as Alan Turing and John von Neumann were all turning towards a view of mental processes in terms of digital computation. --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- (rif. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Grey_Walter#Robots) Per favore andate voi a studiare in cosa consistevano Elmer e Elsie e in cosa consistono i robot autonomi del giorno d'oggi [4], non fatevelo raccontare da me. ...specialmente il senso dell'aggettivo "autonomo" in quel contesto, per favore. Mi fermo qui. Saluti, 380° [1] archiviata qui: https://web.archive.org/web/20210524063016/https://www.gocomics.com/nonsequi... e qui: https://archive.is/pHv3t [2] https://twitter.com/ShashiTharoor/status/1399950572170584067 [3] https://twitter.com/siddhu92/status/1399951954604789761 [4] oggi al 99,99% basati sulla visione "turinghiana" dei processi mentali in termini computazionali, perché i BEAM robot praticamente non esistono: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BEAM_robotics -- 380° (Giovanni Biscuolo public alter ego) «Noi, incompetenti come siamo, non abbiamo alcun titolo per suggerire alcunché» Disinformation flourishes because many people care deeply about injustice but very few check the facts. Ask me about <https://stallmansupport.org>.