Computer scientist Arthur Boran was ecstatic. A few minutes earlier, he had programmed a basic mathematical problem into his prototypical Akron I computer. With growing excitement, Boran requested an explanation of the computer's reasoning. Anyone doing conventional research would have undoubtedly consigned the hapless computer to the scrap heap.
Dumbness is, in many ways, a far more difficult quality to synthesize than intelligence.
My goal is to generate a program that can accurately simulate the full variety of human stupidities. Those initial errors of the Akron I, involving the total inability to interpret or follow even simple directions, as well as a moronic level of mathematical competence, were a promising start. Despite a wealth of accumulated data, the B04 fails to respond to any request in even a remotely organized fashion. For an answer, NASA went to its own GLIB 5000, one of a series of smart-stupid models designed to present inanities in as sophisticated a manner as possible. Computer error,' of course.