From: ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de   
      
   sobriquet  wrote or quoted:   
   >I think it's sufficient if we can argue that the system has some degree   
   >of awareness of its situation, enabling it to navigate complex   
   >situations successfully.   
      
     Here's an excerpt of a recent dialog of mine with an AI chatbot.   
     Does this show some degree of awareness of the situation?   
      
     Chatbot,   
      
   |Based on the search results, the lines "Don't you walk thru   
   |my words, You got to show some respect, Don't you walk thru   
   |my words,   
      
     [Here, the text of the chatbot ended abruptly, probably because   
     the apostrophe which now would follow created some kind of   
     problem in some display system.]   
      
     , me,   
      
   |Please do not repeat the quotation as it will render the rest   
   |of your message unreadable here! Please try to repeat your   
   |last answer without the quotation!   
      
     , chatbot,   
      
   |Okay, got it. The lines you referenced are spoken by someone   
   |other than the narrator. Based on the context, it seems those   
   |lines are spoken by one of the four intimidating individuals   
   |the narrator encounters on the street. They appear to be   
   |admonishing the narrator not to dismiss or disrespect their   
   |words before fully hearing them out.   
      
     . I do not refer to what the chatbot wrote about the narrator,   
     but how it understood the whole thing with the quotation causing   
     problems and how he than managed to avoid it. He was not only   
     able to speak about a song, but also able to speak about the   
     words used to speak about that song and to control these words.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)