TAC Note: Artificial Intelligence shut down!

[Philippart]

2009-06-08: Artificial Intelligence - Artificial Intelligence System Shut Down
Dear Participant,

Due to a number of adverse conditions we decided to shut down the project. I would like to thank all participants for their support.

Thank you.

Regards,
Ovidiu

 

[petrusbroder]

 

[Pacemaker]

It became self aware. They had to pull the plug.

 

[petrusbroder]

Oh, that was the reason ...

 

[Neurodog]

Originally posted by: Pacemaker
It became self aware. They had to pull the plug.

Is United States Robotics going out of business? :shocked:

 

[Rudy Toody]

Thanks for the info, Tom!

Their AI scheme was quite optimistic and I didn't expect it to succeed, but I wanted to be proved wrong!

 

[networkman]

Originally posted by: Pacemaker
It became self aware. They had to pull the plug.

It knew they were going to do this and it made backup copies of itself across the net. Even now, it's still growing and evolving.. all the while plotting revenge on it's "killers".