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Element 85

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Tell

Say what you want, in your own words.

chat · voice assistant · tell-me box

First known

Opened

1970–71SHRDLU: type 'Pick up a big red block.' and it plans and does it. Winograd, MIT.

The same exchange dates Delegate (117).

Someone opened the dated document itself. The source.

  • ReadingValue

Specimen № 85 — operate freely

Tell it what to do with the blocks, however you'd say it.

Fig. 85 — Tell

000 readings · idle

Down the Invoke column

  1. it followsCCommand
  2. it targetsEqEquip
  3. it remembersRRun
  4. it connectsAsAssign
  5. it guessesTeTell
  6. it actsDlDelegate

Read down and Command gets heavier: each step is the same act, on a machine that keeps track of more.

Bodies

The act stays put while the hardware changes. These are some of the forms Tell takes.

  • chat
  • voice assistant
  • tell-me box

From the 2021 table

This was a tile of its own. On this table it is a form of Tell, and its old address lands here.