From: Eugene Leitl (eugene.leitl@lrz.uni-muenchen.de)
Date: Fri Sep 29 2000 - 00:43:10 MDT
Franklin Wayne Poley writes:
> I found this interesting: "Hardware is not the limiting factor for
> building an intelligent computer. We don't need supercomputers to do
> this; the problem is that we don't know what's the software to use with
Of course we don't need supercomputers, everybody knows a 1 MIPS Lisp
workstation from 1983 will do. With a little tweaking, you could
probably get a Jaquard loom passing the Turing test.
He's probably talking about a 2045 A.D. desktop, though.
> them."
Says the man who has given "solving the computer vision" problem to
his students as work assignment. Well, at least he now seems to
realize how wrong he has been all those decades.
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