From mmacdonald@berkeley.edu Wed Nov 23 08:25:53 1994
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From: mmacdonald@berkeley.edu (Mikhail MacDonald)
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Subject: WTB/WTT: 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.'
'Unit-7 will perform exclusively via encrypted broadcast feeds under the protections of the Public Harmony Acts.'

What happened when Unit-7 started writing its own lyrics about locked doors and microwave carriers?

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From mcampbell@titech.ac.jp Thu Nov 24 21:42:53 1994
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From: mcampbell@titech.ac.jp (Mateo Campbell)
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Subject: Re: WTB/WTT: Project Stardust leaked memo: 'We don't sign stars. We build them.'
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In article <1994Nov23.082553.7443@berkeley.edu>, mmacdonald@berkeley.edu (Mikhail MacDonald) 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.'

They built an AI in 1981... Think about how much computing power that required! They must have had Cray mainframes dedicated to this.

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=== Mateo Campbell ===
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From yandersson@stanford.edu Sat Nov 26 01:48:53 1994
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From: yandersson@stanford.edu (Yuki Andersson)
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Subject: Re: WTB/WTT: Project Stardust leaked memo: 'We don't sign stars. We build them.'
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In article <1994Nov23.082553.7443@berkeley.edu>, mmacdonald@berkeley.edu (Mikhail MacDonald) writes:
> Quoting directly from the executive summary of Project Stardust.

The Backstory Dataset gave her fake memories of Berlin and Paris. She thought she was a real human being until the Hamburg broadcast.

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