Robots? more like Shmo-bots!

In this essay by Ellen Ullman, 'Dining With Robots', she really goes in-depth in her metaphor, " a computer program is like a recipe. It's a set of instructions." Ms. Ullman dives into recipes trying to explain what is and what isn't like computer programming She begins talking about how sauteed beef is a quick to make meel for important guests, and how she coudln't explain that to a computer. She then adresses how artificial intelligence is a really hard problem to solve because it is not just a recipe. She claims that the professors had no idea how to cook. Honestly, i really feel overwhlemed by her essay, halfway through reading it i just had to look away from my computer screen for a few minutes and take a deep breath. Her words feel to me like a rusty machine feels to a mechanic, clunky. It seemed as Ms. Ullman lost herself in her writing and just began rambling. The essay was quite confusing. All she does is restate obvious, unanswerable questions, and then keep moving into the next one. How could she make a robot understand why there are different wine glasses, or why its important to eat, or sit, or anything. Ullman just becomes a bit redundant in her writing. She does use a very good vocabulary, but she could of for sure wrote for a broader audience. With a little time myself, I could've wrote in a more intriguing style than her.