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Indeed it was... I'll read the bio with
interest...
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Monday, December 09, 2002 11:26
AM
Subject: RE: [agi] AI on TV
There was a show on the tube last night on
TechTV. It was part of their weekly Secret, Strange and True
series. They chronicled three guys who are working on creating
advanced AI. ![]()
One guy was from Belgium. My
apologies to him if he reads this list, but he was a rather quirky and
stressed character. He had designed a computer that was basically a
collection of chips. He raised a million and had it built on
spec. I gather he was expecting something to miraculously emerge from
this collection, but alas, nothing did. It was really stressful
watching his stress. He had very high visibility in the country and
the pressure was immense as he promised a lot. I have real doubts
about his approach, even though I am a lay-AI person. Also, its clear
from watching him that its sometimes good to have shoestring budgets and low
visibility. Less stress and more forced creativity in your
approach...
Kevin: Was the guy from Belgium perhaps Hugo de
Garis?? [Who is not in Belgium anymore, but who designed a
radical hardware based approach to AGI, and who is a bit of a quirky guy??
...]
I visited Hugo at Starlab [when it existed] in Brussels
in mid-2001
See my brief bio of Hugo at
-- Ben
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