On the errand · Scope, watch, take back or end the errand. · it acts
Element 99
It tells you what it did.
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The other half of the exchange is Inspect.
First known
Opened
1970–71SHRDLU tells how and why it acted, down to 'BECAUSE YOU ASKED ME TO'. Winograd, MIT.
See also: Sheridan and Verplank's level 7, 'necessarily informs', 1978.
Someone opened the dated document itself. The source.
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Specimen № 99 — operate freely
Read its report. Ask it what you like, then live through Thursday.
Fig. 99 — Report
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On the errand: its twin
The two series line up in pairs. Each act on a guess sits above the act that does the same thing to an errand, so Explain and Report are one move made on two kinds of thing.
Bodies
The act stays put while the hardware changes. These are some of the forms Report takes.
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From the 2021 table
This was a tile of its own. On this table it is a form of Report, and its old address lands here.
- WaitRenamedThe same act, under a name that says what it does.