From: Eugene Leitl (Eugene.Leitl@lrz.uni-muenchen.de)
Date: Thu Jun 21 2001 - 04:25:15 MDT
"HAL killed the ['2001'] crew because it had been told not to lie to them,
but also to lie to them about the mission," he observes. "No one ever
told HAL that killing is worse than lying. But we've told Cyc."
-- Eugen* Leitl
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Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2001 06:07:47 -0400
From: David Farber <dave@farber.net>
Reply-To: farber@cis.upenn.edu
To: ip-sub-1@majordomo.pobox.com
Subject: IP: Birth of a Thinking Machine
>From: "the terminal of Geoff Goodfellow" <geoff@iconia.com>
>To: "Dave E-mail Pamphleteer Farber" <farber@cis.upenn.edu>
>Subject: Birth of a Thinking Machine
>Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2001 11:58:38 +0200
>
>
>Birth of a Thinking Machine
>
>For 17 years, a team has been trying to develop the most sophisticated
>artificial intelligence system ever. This summer, the public will be able to
>see its work.
>
>By MICHAEL A. HILTZIK, Times Staff Writer
>
> AUSTIN, Texas--Popular culture has long held strong opinions about what
>the world's smartest machine should look like. There's the unblinking red
>eye of HAL, the brilliant, homicidal computer of Stanley Kubrick's "2001: A
>Space Odyssey"; the gilded humanoids of pulp sci-fi; and the flashing lights
>and gleaming boxes of countless doomsday scenarios.
>
>But it's a safe bet that nobody has imagined artificial intelligence the way
>it is taking shape inside a low-slung brown brick building hidden deep
>within a leafy research park north of town. Yet here beats the heart of the
>system known as Cyc.
>
> For 17 years a small band of engineers and programmers has been slaving
>away at the task of teaching Cyc much of what a human being knows. (The name
>comes from "encyclopedia" and is pronounced "psych.") The idea, as
>articulated by the project's creator, computer scientist Douglas B. Lenat,
>has been to create the most sophisticated artificial intelligence system
>ever devised--the closest a computer has come to replicating the human
>brain's reasoning, learning ability and perhaps even its consciousness.
>
>--SNIP--
>
>http://www.latimes.com/business/cutting/lat_cyc010621.htm
>
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