Author: Dave Gomboc
Date: 21:18:14 10/20/03
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On October 17, 2003 at 19:09:33, martin fierz wrote: >On October 17, 2003 at 14:41:10, Dann Corbit wrote: > >>Read this (if you have not read it already): >>http://www.kurzweilai.net/articles/art0134.html?printable=1 > >yeah, i did. during my physics study, i once stumbled across a game called >"bullshit bingo", which works as follows: all persons listening to a seminar get >a grid (chessboard-like) with "hype"-words on it. every time the speaker says >one of the words on your sheet, you cross it out. the first person to have a row >of the grid crossed out completely is to stand up and shout "bullshit!" - the >reasoning is that if too many of these hype-terms come up then probably the guy >is talking BS. i guess i would have been able to shout "BS!" after a minute or >two of reading this :-) Ray Kurzweil gave this talk as a keynote speech at AAAI 2003 in Edmonton, Alberta this past summer. While I wouldn't say that everybody agreed with him, his views _are_ highly respected in the AI community. Dave
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