From msilva@titech.ac.jp Fri Oct 06 15:20:33 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!titech!msilva From: msilva@titech.ac.jp (Morag Silva) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: WTB/WTT: Project Stardust leaked memo: 'We don't sign stars. We build them.' Message-ID: <1995Oct06.152033.5533@titech.ac.jp> Date: Fri, 06 Oct 1995 15:20:33 GMT Organization: Tokyo Institute of Technology Computer Centre NNTP-Posting-Host: titech.ac.jp X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 11 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.' What happened when Unit-7 started writing its own lyrics about locked doors and microwave carriers? -- === Morag Silva === Dept of Electrical Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology Computer Centre "In theory there is no difference between theory and practice." From sfournier@cmu.edu Sat Oct 07 20:57:33 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!cmu!sfournier From: sfournier@cmu.edu (Steve Fournier) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: WTB/WTT: Project Stardust leaked memo: 'We don't sign stars. We build them.' Message-ID: <1995Oct07.205733.7481@cmu.edu> Date: Sat, 07 Oct 1995 20:57:33 GMT References: <1995Oct06.152033.5533@titech.ac.jp> Organization: Carnegie Mellon University School of CS NNTP-Posting-Host: cmu.edu X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 10 In article <1995Oct06.152033.5533@titech.ac.jp>, msilva@titech.ac.jp (Morag Silva) writes: > 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.' Neural networks in 1981 couldn't even recognize a picture of a cat, let alone synthesize an entire rock star. -- Steve Fournier "Tape doesn't lie at 02:14. Ears do." Decstation 5000/200 / NEXTSTEP 3.3