From lrodriguez@cmu.edu Mon Mar 20 12:40:44 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!cmu!lrodriguez From: lrodriguez@cmu.edu (Lars Rodríguez) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: [SPECULATION] Project Stardust leaked memo: 'We don't sign stars. We build them.' Message-ID: <1995Mar20.124044.8020@cmu.edu> Date: Mon, 20 Mar 1995 12:40:44 GMT Organization: Carnegie Mellon University School of CS NNTP-Posting-Host: cmu.edu X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 11 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? -- Lars Rodríguez Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of Carnegie Mellon University School of CS. ------------------------------------------------------------ From lgirard@kiae.su Tue Mar 21 00:48:44 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!kiae!lgirard From: lgirard@kiae.su (Liam Girard) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] Project Stardust leaked memo: 'We don't sign stars. We build them.' Message-ID: <1995Mar21.004844.7209@kiae.su> Date: Tue, 21 Mar 1995 00:48:44 GMT References: <1995Mar20.124044.8020@cmu.edu> Organization: Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy, Moscow NNTP-Posting-Host: kiae.su X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 10 In article <1995Mar20.124044.8020@cmu.edu>, lrodriguez@cmu.edu (Lars Rodríguez) 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.' Neural networks in 1981 couldn't even recognize a picture of a cat, let alone synthesize an entire rock star. -- === Liam Girard === Dept of Electrical Engineering, Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy, Moscow "Do not worship the copy." From hsokolov@titech.ac.jp Wed Mar 22 14:35:44 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!titech!hsokolov From: hsokolov@titech.ac.jp (Hana Sokolov) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] Project Stardust leaked memo: 'We don't sign stars. We build them.' Message-ID: <1995Mar22.143544.9968@titech.ac.jp> Date: Wed, 22 Mar 1995 14:35:44 GMT References: <1995Mar20.124044.8020@cmu.edu> <1995Mar21.004844.7209@kiae.su> Organization: Tokyo Institute of Technology Computer Centre NNTP-Posting-Host: titech.ac.jp X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 11 In article <1995Mar21.004844.7209@kiae.su>, lgirard@kiae.su (Liam Girard) writes: > Neural networks in 1981 couldn't even recognize a picture of a cat, let alone synthesize an entire rock star. They built an AI in 1981... Think about how much computing power that required! They must have had Cray mainframes dedicated to this. My 14.4k connection dropped twice trying to fetch this thread. Keep articles concise! -- Hana Sokolov "Row 14. No joke." 486DX4/100 (FreeBSD 2.0.5) / System 7.5.1