From ksanchez@tum.de Thu Mar 21 23:50:56 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!tum!ksanchez From: ksanchez@tum.de (Katrin Sánchez) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Data: Project Stardust leaked memo: 'We don't sign stars. We build them.' Message-ID: <1996Mar21.235056.7276@tum.de> Date: Thu, 21 Mar 1996 23:50:56 GMT Organization: Technische Universität München NNTP-Posting-Host: tum.de X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 11 A contact at a Los Angeles law firm handling Orion's bankruptcy liquidation leaked an internal memo from 1981. 'Unit-7 will perform exclusively via encrypted broadcast feeds under the protections of the Public Harmony Acts.' 'The asset designated Unit-7 represents a synthesis of demographic data modeling and neural linguistic generation.' 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. -- Katrin Sánchez Zyxel U-1496E @ 14,400 bps "The hatch is open. Is anyone listening?" From bito@mit.edu Fri Mar 22 06:55:56 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!mit!bito From: bito@mit.edu (Bastien Ito) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: Data: Project Stardust leaked memo: 'We don't sign stars. We build them.' Message-ID: <1996Mar22.065556.6793@mit.edu> Date: Fri, 22 Mar 1996 06:55:56 GMT References: <1996Mar21.235056.7276@tum.de> Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology NNTP-Posting-Host: mit.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 9 In article <1996Mar21.235056.7276@tum.de>, ksanchez@tum.de (Katrin Sánchez) writes: > A contact at a Los Angeles law firm handling Orion's bankruptcy liquidation leaked an internal memo from 1981. They built an AI in 1981... Think about how much computing power that required! They must have had Cray mainframes dedicated to this. -- Bastien Ito *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Decstation 5000/200 - NetBSD 1.0