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" The coming generation of PCs , [ Steven ] Schwartz says , will know everything HAL knew , but they wo n't be remote from us . By putting artificial intelligence inside a robot , he hopes it will be able to talk and respond to people in a natural way . The robot picks up an astonishing amount of information . ' This means you can type in a question and it will understand it , ' she says . Founder Tim Estes says Digital Reasoning plans to use the BioAccelerator for Physerve , a venture that seeks to use the software for medical purposes . He hopes to research artificial intelligence when he finishes school . Bill calls it Outlook Plus and hopes it can be turned into a product for Longhorn . ' Standing at his vendor 's booth at the 2002 Georgia Association of Educational Leaders Summer Conference at the Jekyll Island Conference Center , he explains the ins and outs of IntelliMetric , an online computerized essay grading program he hopes will eliminate the handwritten red marks of teachers that students are used to seeing when their essay is returned . The system works by having a speech recogniser that picks up the words in Croatian , turns the speech into text . Clark Aldrich figures his new software could have at least taught employees at those companies a few things about ethics and decision making . A few big banks like Fleet and Bank of America have installed some talking ATMs over the years in select states , but ' there 's a long , long way to go before the blind can walk up to any ATM and take for granted that it will talk to us , ' says Curtis Chong , technology director at the National Federation of the Blind ( NFB ) . No more one size fits all . ' The same robot that helped with the recovery effort at the World Trade Center is now in Afghanistan trying to track down the people that did it , ' says Tom Frost , senior technical manager at iRobot , the Somerville , Mass ., firm that manufactures a line of machines they call PackBots , of which the nicknamed Fester is a prototype .