Author: Dave Gomboc
Date: 17:18:18 10/22/03
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On October 21, 2003 at 00:18:14, Dave Gomboc wrote: >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 Yikes, the time is slipping by. It was in 2002, not 2003. Dave
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