From dsokolov@inria.fr Mon Sep 19 16:29:28 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!inria!dsokolov From: dsokolov@inria.fr (Dave Sokolov) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Project Stardust leaked memo: 'We don't sign stars. We build them.' Message-ID: <1994Sep19.162928.7037@inria.fr> Date: Mon, 19 Sep 1994 16:29:28 GMT Organization: INRIA Rocquencourt NNTP-Posting-Host: inria.fr X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 10 A contact at a Los Angeles law firm handling Orion's bankruptcy liquidation leaked an internal memo from 1981. 'The asset designated Unit-7 represents a synthesis of demographic data modeling and neural linguistic generation.' 'The preceding units (Echo-1 through Echo-6) suffered cognitive disintegration and have been terminated and purged from storage.' What happened when Unit-7 started writing its own lyrics about locked doors and microwave carriers? -- Dave Sokolov -- INRIA Rocquencourt "Hold for relay." From mwatanabe@panix.com Tue Sep 20 12:56:28 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!panix!mwatanabe From: mwatanabe@panix.com (Mikhail Watanabe) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: Project Stardust leaked memo: 'We don't sign stars. We build them.' Message-ID: <1994Sep20.125628.4290@panix.com> Date: Tue, 20 Sep 1994 12:56:28 GMT References: <1994Sep19.162928.7037@inria.fr> Organization: Public Access Unix of New York NNTP-Posting-Host: panix.com X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 12 In article <1994Sep19.162928.7037@inria.fr>, dsokolov@inria.fr (Dave Sokolov) writes: > A contact at a Los Angeles law firm handling Orion's bankruptcy liquidation leaked an internal memo from 1981. > 'The asset designated Unit-7 represents a synthesis of demographic data modeling and neural linguistic generation.' They built an AI in 1981... Think about how much computing power that required! They must have had Cray mainframes dedicated to this. Unsubscribe me from this list! (Wait, this is Usenet, never mind). -- Mikhail Watanabe Hayes Optima 288 @ 19,200 bps "5 sigma is a discovery. 7 is a question."