Re:Memories: Artificial Intelligence at Stanford in the 70s
by p_l on Wednesday January 11, 2023 @01:39PM
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The "farewell address" from the WAITS machine included a reference to the event.
Re:Memories: Artificial Intelligence at Stanford in the 70s
by 082349872349872 on Wednesday January 11, 2023 @04:43PM
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WAITS has the true details; good to see my memory was not any more unreliable than usual.
> The first character alphabet that was programmed for my plotter was Elvish rather than Latin.
To be fair, tengwar is so much more regular than latin, that it only stands to reason one might wish to debug with it, parametrically* generating letterforms, before committing the effort to digitising a full latin alphabet, letter by painstaking letter.
(in our days of cheap bandwidth, it's even easier to download preexisting alphabets; eg https://emergent.unpythonic.net/software/hershey )
Including, if the rumours are to believed, early exercises in teledildonics.
(search engines are not confirming at the moment; it would've been late-60's early-70's and the way I heard the story, the geeks at SAIL were shocked —but not that shocked— to discover that two coeds who answered an ad seeking "open minded individuals" turned out to be even freer of hangups than had been hoped... Or have my aging neurons misattributed these antics from a different AI lab?)