Sanders Associates Inc, the Nashua, New Hampshire unit of Lockheed Corp, says it has developed an artificial intelligence program that simulates the actions and reactions of an enemy submarine commander for anti-submarine warfare training, but New Yorkers will be sure the system’s a phoney and that they know better: the feeling around 44th and Broadway is that the thing is actually just a little Russian emigree who began driving a cab the day after he got off the boat, and after two years of failing to find his way around the city or learning even a smattering of the language, gave it up for the cushier job of sitting in a submarine simulator.
