{"id":8340,"date":"2004-09-10T10:30:03","date_gmt":"2004-09-10T10:30:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/streettech.dreamhosters.com\/?p=8340"},"modified":"2004-09-10T10:30:03","modified_gmt":"2004-09-10T10:30:03","slug":"open-the-pod-bay-doors-please-hal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=8340","title":{"rendered":"Open the pod bay doors, please, HAL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/\">Wired<\/a> has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/news\/print\/0,1294,64888,00.html\">a story<\/a> about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chattingaimbot.com\/?p=news\">Chatting AIM Bot,<\/a> described as <i>&#8220;a free service that lets anyone play a devious practical joke on a friend, in which an artificially intelligent AOL instant message, or AIM, bot carries on an innocuous, 10-minute conversation before finally lowering the boom and informing the unwitting human at the other end they&#8217;ve been had.&#8221;<\/i><\/p>\n<p> The bot, which apparently IMs the victim using the capitalization-challenged, abbreviation-loving style common to 13-year-olds, then emails a transcript of the conversation back to the victimizer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wired has a story about Chatting AIM Bot, described as &#8220;a free service that lets anyone play a devious practical joke on a friend, in which an artificially intelligent AOL instant message, or AIM, bot carries on an innocuous, 10-minute conversation before finally lowering the boom and informing the unwitting human at the other end &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=8340\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Open the pod bay doors, please, HAL&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apocalypse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8340\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}