[ExI] ai class at stanford

[Emlyn]

I'm signed up, an extro study group for this would be *awesome*.

btw, have a look at Google+ as an adjunct to this; the Hangouts
feature would be brilliant. Hangouts is where you can have up to 10
people in a group video chat at once, really easy to kick off. That'd
be amazing for a study group.

(And, btw, you can now kick off Hangouts from youtube vids, and all
watch a vid together. Serious potential in the study space there!)

On 22 August 2011 07:43, spike <spike66 at att.net> wrote:
>
>
>>...But you had to love the unbridled optimism the early computer scientists
> had about how soon they would be doing intelligent stuff...
> :-)
>
> We had plenty of unbridled optimism, that I can calmly assure you.  In
> college, one of our favorite mental exercises was to try to determine what
> tasks computers could never accomplish.  We couldn't think of much they
> could never do.
>
>>...So when did you encounter your first computer? I ran into something like
> a PDP-11 as a boy scout in around 1979...
>
> In 1979, I was programming something EXACTLY like a PDP-11, making tools to
> help my mother's accounting business.  It was a DEC 11-750.
>
>>> Callow youth!  Back when I took pattern recognition, patterns hadn't yet
> been invented...
>
> I asked my Pattern Recognition classmate, hey, do you see any pattern here?
> He said, No of course not, thou silly person, the earth is without form and
> void.
>
> Nothing much happened in pattern recognition until that whole Let there be
> light incident.  Within a few days, humans began to see patterns everywhere.
> You can read about it here:
>
> http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis+1&version=KJV
>
> spike
>
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