From ydubois@illinois.edu Wed Nov 20 06:26:10 1996
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From: ydubois@illinois.edu (Yuki Dubois)
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Subject: Discussion: Project Stardust leaked memo: 'We don't sign stars. We build them.'
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Quoting directly from the executive summary of Project Stardust.

'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.'

They didn't want a pop star. They wanted an immortal corporate asset that could never sue for royalties, age, or OD in a hotel room.

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From tandersson@mit.edu Wed Nov 20 16:32:10 1996
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From: tandersson@mit.edu (Tomas Andersson)
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Subject: Re: Discussion: Project Stardust leaked memo: 'We don't sign stars. We build them.'
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In article <1996Nov20.062610.2806@illinois.edu>, ydubois@illinois.edu (Yuki Dubois) writes:
> Quoting directly from the executive summary of Project Stardust.

Neural networks in 1981 couldn't even recognize a picture of a cat, let alone synthesize an entire rock star.

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From apark@netcom.com Fri Nov 22 04:37:10 1996
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From: apark@netcom.com (Anton Park)
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Subject: Re: Discussion: Project Stardust leaked memo: 'We don't sign stars. We build them.'
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In article <1996Nov20.163210.8709@mit.edu>, tandersson@mit.edu (Tomas Andersson) 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.

Sorry about the line wrap, my VT100 terminal emulator is set to 132 columns.

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