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Message #00172
To: "'Scott Martin'" a1a96566@bc.sympatico.ca, beam@corp.sgi.com
From: Wilf Rigter Wilf.Rigter@powertech.bc.ca
Date: Thu, 4 Feb 1999 13:01:31 -0800
Subject: [alt-beam] Re: Schmitt trigger
Ok Scott,
This sounds like a nefarious plot!
From Perceptrons to supressing AI: how did this come about?
>Unfortunately, there are "fanatics" among us. It is a revolution
>tho...in that it has made people realize that a CPU is not nessary
>to controll certian functions. I would like to state for the record
that
>I LIKE CPU's... Computers have played a big part in my life.
>>>After all, what about Marvin Minski's Perceptrons? That was back
>>>in the 1960's, they used vacuum tubes, but had learning machine
robots
>>>long before mobile CPU based robots.
>>Minski, a shining light for all of us! (don't worry, I didn't say
God)
>Nor would I. Minski and his colleagues went out of their way to
>suppress AI research that didn't fit their "vision" setting AI back
>by at least 20 years...and that's in the history books.
>ScottyDogma
Wilf Rigter mailto:wilf.rigter@powertech.bc.ca
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Scott Martin [SMTP:a1a96566@bc.sympatico.ca]
> Sent: Thursday, February 04, 1999 11:07 AM
> To: beam@corp.sgi.com
> Subject: Re: Schmitt trigger
>
>
> >> is quoted from Bob Shannon.
> > is quoted from Wilf Rigter.
>
>
> Nor would I. Minski and his colleages went out of their way to
> suppress AI research that didn't fit their "vision" setting AI back
> by at least 20 years...and thats in the history books.
>
>
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