From spark@cam.ac.uk Mon Mar 06 13:24:24 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!cam!spark From: spark@cam.ac.uk (Steve Park) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Observation: Project Stardust leaked memo: 'We don't sign stars. We build them.' Message-ID: <1995Mar06.132424.7445@cam.ac.uk> Date: Mon, 06 Mar 1995 13:24:24 GMT Organization: University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory NNTP-Posting-Host: cam.ac.uk X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 10 Quoting directly from the executive summary of Project Stardust. 'Mandate: To eliminate the financial volatility and human liabilities inherent in musical talent.' '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? -- Steve Park -- University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary spectra." From pkowalski@inria.fr Mon Mar 06 16:41:24 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!inria!pkowalski From: pkowalski@inria.fr (Pavel Kowalski) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: Observation: Project Stardust leaked memo: 'We don't sign stars. We build them.' Message-ID: <1995Mar06.164124.7451@inria.fr> Date: Mon, 06 Mar 1995 16:41:24 GMT References: <1995Mar06.132424.7445@cam.ac.uk> Organization: INRIA Rocquencourt NNTP-Posting-Host: inria.fr X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 10 In article <1995Mar06.132424.7445@cam.ac.uk>, spark@cam.ac.uk (Steve Park) writes: > Quoting directly from the executive summary of Project Stardust. > 'Mandate: To eliminate the financial volatility and human liabilities inherent in musical talent.' The Backstory Dataset gave her fake memories of Berlin and Paris. She thought she was a real human being until the Hamburg broadcast. -- === Pavel Kowalski === Dept of Electrical Engineering, INRIA Rocquencourt "In theory there is no difference between theory and practice." From jmacdonald@mindspring.com Wed Mar 08 02:32:24 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!mindspring!jmacdonald From: jmacdonald@mindspring.com (Julien MacDonald) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: Observation: Project Stardust leaked memo: 'We don't sign stars. We build them.' Message-ID: <1995Mar08.023224.7852@mindspring.com> Date: Wed, 08 Mar 1995 02:32:24 GMT References: <1995Mar06.132424.7445@cam.ac.uk> <1995Mar06.164124.7451@inria.fr> Organization: MindSpring Enterprises NNTP-Posting-Host: mindspring.com X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 9 In article <1995Mar06.164124.7451@inria.fr>, pkowalski@inria.fr (Pavel Kowalski) writes: > The Backstory Dataset gave her fake memories of Berlin and Paris. She thought she was a real human being until the Hamburg broadcast. Neural networks in 1981 couldn't even recognize a picture of a cat, let alone synthesize an entire rock star. -- Julien MacDonald "We don't sign stars. We build them." Commodore Amiga 500 (1MB OCS) / SunOS 4.1.4 From mlindqvist@uu.net Wed Mar 08 06:05:24 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!uu!mlindqvist From: mlindqvist@uu.net (Matthias Lindqvist) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: Observation: Project Stardust leaked memo: 'We don't sign stars. We build them.' Message-ID: <1995Mar08.060524.1996@uu.net> Date: Wed, 08 Mar 1995 06:05:24 GMT References: <1995Mar06.132424.7445@cam.ac.uk> <1995Mar06.164124.7451@inria.fr> <1995Mar08.023224.7852@mindspring.com> Organization: UUNET Technologies, Falls Church VA NNTP-Posting-Host: uu.net X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 9 In article <1995Mar08.023224.7852@mindspring.com>, jmacdonald@mindspring.com (Julien MacDonald) writes: > Neural networks in 1981 couldn't even recognize a picture of a cat, let alone synthesize an entire rock star. The Backstory Dataset gave her fake memories of Berlin and Paris. She thought she was a real human being until the Hamburg broadcast. -- Matthias Lindqvist "There are 14 nodes and only 10 countries. Count again." Amiga 3000T / SunOS 4.1.4