“Prestigious Christmas gifts for only the dearest people!” Hey, I want a prestigious Christmas gift! I’m stuck with lousy, disreputable gifts. I guess I’m not one of the elite “dearest.”
Archive for 8 February 2008
Overgermanification
Posted: 8 February 2008 in UncategorizedTags: ai, chris mckinstry, english, german, orthography, push singh, suicides, wunderkind
I was just reading a Wired article about the deaths of two AI researchers: Chris McKinstry and Pushpinder Singh. Both were working on strong AI (or at least, had the hope of it). Both committed suicide and did it within a month of each other. McKinstry claimed that his system would be aware in a [...]
