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