From moliveira@panix.com Sat Jun 22 23:37:39 1996
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From: moliveira@panix.com (Min-jun Oliveira)
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Subject: 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 preceding units (Echo-1 through Echo-6) suffered cognitive disintegration and have been terminated and purged from storage.'
'The asset designated Unit-7 represents a synthesis of demographic data modeling and neural linguistic generation.'

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

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From kweber@stanford.edu Sun Jun 23 18:16:39 1996
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From: kweber@stanford.edu (Kenji Weber)
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Subject: Re: Project Stardust leaked memo: 'We don't sign stars. We build them.'
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In article <1996Jun22.233739.9375@panix.com>, moliveira@panix.com (Min-jun Oliveira) 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 skowalski@berkeley.edu Mon Jun 24 11:03:39 1996
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From: skowalski@berkeley.edu (Steve Kowalski)
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Subject: Re: Project Stardust leaked memo: 'We don't sign stars. We build them.'
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In article <1996Jun22.233739.9375@panix.com>, moliveira@panix.com (Min-jun Oliveira) 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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