FY;) 1999 Ushers in The Singularity

From: Eugene.Leitl@lrz.uni-muenchen.de
Date: Wed Dec 30 1998 - 09:15:53 MST


The famous NetKook Mentifex with his idee fixe to create an AI in
Mountain View Press Forth on an Amiga...

'gene

P.S. Happy New Year, and look out for reports on the '99' record bug
        in the media.

From: mentifex@scn.org (Mentifex)

New Year's 1999 Prediction: Vinge's Technological Singularity of

   http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~phoenix/vinge/vinge-sing.html

will arrive in the final year of the outgoing pre-Y2K millennium.

  /^^^^^^^^^^^\ PDAIMIND leads to the Singularity /^^^^^^^^^^^\
 /visual memory\ _________ / auditory \
| /--------|---------\ / LANG-UK \ | memory |
| | recog-|nition | \_________/---|-------------\ |
| ___|___ | | flush-vector| | ________ | |
| /image \ | ____V_ ____V__ | / \ | |
| / percept \ | /psi{ }\------/ uk{ } \----|-/ ear{ } \| |
| \ engrams /---|---/concepts\----/ lexicon \---|-\ phonemes / |
| \_______/ | \________/ \_________/ | \________/ |

Vinge argues that no country or government will oppose the threat
of the Singularity for fear of giving up a competitive advantage.

http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Agora/7256/m-forth.html Mind.forth
lends itself to adoption by any country: uk + de + cn + jp + fr !



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