True Gore, but ...

I remember seeing the snippet on Discovery about the guy who had 'given birth' to about 20 'bugs' which were AI programmed. They had sensory arrays for visual and audio, as well as negative feedback sensors for when they ran into things. All he did was load in the 'this is what you are' software and the AI, and let them do the rest. At the point of the snippet, he was a year into the experiment and the bugs had learned how to travel from his study all through his house without bumping into anything, including each other and any stray human/animal which might be in their way. Whatever happened with this electronic infestation?

I also remember right around the time when everyone was paranoid over Y2K an AI project that had been written to monitor chats to learn language skills, then after time attempt to carry on conversations based on what it had learned. At the time the story aired, the program had a vocabulary of over 1000 words and could discuss specific topics, change chat channels at will, etc. Only when queried on specific details was its AI nature revealed to others... Is it still out there chatting? I'm curious what happened when it discovered Pr0n, BDSM, and how to download mp3's...

For years now we've had Dragon to let us run our computer by voice. You'd think by now it would be standard issue on all new machines, yet it's still just a 'play pretty' you find in computer science instructor's private offices... has no one developed it further? If they have, what practical uses does it have other than learning *one* person's voice well enough to take the place of a keyboard? (/me thinks on the cell phone commercial where the chickie says "I had a great time last night." and the cell phone text messages "I have lip fungus.")