__/ [ B Gruff ] on Tuesday 26 September 2006 15:03 \__
> On Tuesday 26 September 2006 14:55 B Gruff wrote:
>
>> Ye gods!
>>
>> I've just found the "source" of flattie, DFS, all the nyms, Erik and all
>> the rest!
>>
>> Why didn't we spot it before, I wonder?
>>
>> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/09/25/bogus_ai/
>
> Ohmygod - it goes on!
> Perhaps it includedes Roy as well - he's just a fault-tolerant computer
> system, designed by limeys in Manchester!:-
>
> "Fortunately, serious researchers may yet be able to shake off the curse of
> AI. In Manchester, where Turing made his flawed philosophical assumption
> that set academic AI haring down the wrong path for forty years.
> At the University of Manchester Steve Furber, father of the ARM chip, is
> helping build a "brain box", modelled from biological systems. The research
> will help design more fault tolerant computing systems. There isn't a hint
> of talking (or dancing) robots in sight"
>
> "So to get better computers, maybe all we needed [was] to forget about them
> being conscious, or intelligent"
I didn't know Steve had turned to such research ("brain boxes"). I worked
with his group in 2002, a couple of years before he stepped down from his
HoD role (replaced by my Supervisor). *smile*
Speaking of computers that 'think':
Sci-Fi: A New Kind of OS
,----[ Quote ]
| Consider the obvious advantages to an operating system that actually
| morphed and adapted to the needs of the users instead of the other way
| around. Not only is there no such OS like this, the very idea goes
| against much of what we are currently seeing in the current OS options in
| the market.
`----
http://www.osweekly.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2309
All it takes is develop^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H
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Oh, I need to reboot myself again.
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