Re: Invitation to private presentation

Liz Bradley (lizb@peradam.cs.colorado.edu)
Tue, 10 Nov 98 15:53:03 -0700

> i may be a dance purist, but I hate to see dance of all thing get
> absorbed by corporate mindfuck money making strategies to integrate
> their technology into every possible aspect of human culture so that
> every person feels compelled to use it regardless of its benefit or
> cost effectiveness. That stoopid artificial intelligence program
> takes a ton of calculations to do what i could do in my head and in
> the studio and actually feel some sort of accomplishment and
> commitment to the work.

"corporate mindfuck money" - hrm? I'm a lowly, underfunded academic:
a professor of computer science and applied mathematics who finds a
challenge getting computers to do something more interesting than sort
numbers.

And I bet Garry Kasparov no longer thinks that Deep Blue is a "stoopid
AI program" ;-)

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