FY;) 1999 Ushers in The Singularity

Eugene.Leitl@lrz.uni-muenchen.de
30 Dec 98 16:15:53 GMT

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 !