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Mr X, the head of the patent office, talks with a visitor:
"What would you like to patent?"
"A robot."
"Oh, gosh! The same old things," Mr X is enraged. "My dear friend, I am sick and tired of inventors! Hardly a day passes without one coming into order a patent for another robot."
"Well, but I ..."
"Belive it or not, I have tested two hundred and sixty nine robots this year. All kinds of them, small and big and all of them. I repeat it - I turned out to be nothing.A robot who is a mans servant and helpmate is of course a good idea. But how can it be materialized? Nevertheless, a guy will come to this office who will introduce a perfect robot, exactly what needed, sooner or later. I will crown him with roses and laurel myself. But who knows when this will be. Meanwhile, you may go home, my friend, and give my best regards to your model"
"But I am not an Inventor."
"Not an inventor? Then who the heck are you??"
"I am a robot" is the calm answer.
Once, a computer was assigned to translate the expression "Out of sight, Out of mind" in Russian.
To check the translation, computer was requested to put the translation equivalent back to english.
The output read "An Invisible Madman"
In checking the translation of the line from Gospel:"The flesh is weak the spirit is strong" on another computer, the reverse translation of the russian read: "The meat is soft the vodka is strong".
"What would you like to patent?"
"A robot."
"Oh, gosh! The same old things," Mr X is enraged. "My dear friend, I am sick and tired of inventors! Hardly a day passes without one coming into order a patent for another robot."
"Well, but I ..."
"Belive it or not, I have tested two hundred and sixty nine robots this year. All kinds of them, small and big and all of them. I repeat it - I turned out to be nothing.A robot who is a mans servant and helpmate is of course a good idea. But how can it be materialized? Nevertheless, a guy will come to this office who will introduce a perfect robot, exactly what needed, sooner or later. I will crown him with roses and laurel myself. But who knows when this will be. Meanwhile, you may go home, my friend, and give my best regards to your model"
"But I am not an Inventor."
"Not an inventor? Then who the heck are you??"
"I am a robot" is the calm answer.
Once, a computer was assigned to translate the expression "Out of sight, Out of mind" in Russian.
To check the translation, computer was requested to put the translation equivalent back to english.
The output read "An Invisible Madman"
In checking the translation of the line from Gospel:"The flesh is weak the spirit is strong" on another computer, the reverse translation of the russian read: "The meat is soft the vodka is strong".