Just 11 short days later.....

A few weeks ago I mentioned in a blog that RadioLab had done a podcast where they investigated computer intelligence. In that I mentioned that it freaked me out that you could be talking to something for some time, thinking they were a real person only to then find out that they were only a computer programme. It freaked me out, now, just 11 days after writing that blog......I received one of the emails talked about in that blog, an email where you receive an email from a strange source and it's someone wanting to meet you, who is interested in meeting you, so on and so forth.

Now, you may be wondering how I know that this email was from one of these computer programmes......well I'll let you read the email first....

The first clue that this wasn't a genuine person was that this came into my email at work, and not even my specific inbox, it also went into several others, and I can assure you we don't give our team email addresses out to dating agencies.

Secondly, the email address "she" sent this from is not the one that "she" mentions in the email. The email address is also italian, that despite "her" claims that she is in Australia and is from Poland.

She says her name is Diana but the email address would indicate her name is Sonia Melinda

55kg is extremely small for someone who is just shy of 6ft tall. It's roughly 8 stone, which for a small girl I would expect, but not someone who is 6ft tall, not unless they are thin as fuck.

I could go on.

There was no real point to this blog, it just made me chuckle that I received this less than two weeks after talking about it.