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In article <60bg0b$cbp$1@now.cirl.uoregon.edu>,
David Joslin <deej@now.cirl.uoregon.edu> wrote:
>In article <342b36de.10039603@news.earthlink.net>,
>Louis Savain <savainl@earthlink.net> wrote:
>[...]
 >  Watch this newsgroup for the next announcement from Marengo Media
 >regarding the coming AI revolution, that is, the temporal neuron
 >revolution.  The announcement will be made under the title "ANML:
 >Associative Network for Machine Learning."  There will be software and
 >source code available for free downloading.  After that, all follow-up
 >messages should be posted to the newsgroup "comp.ai."  Thank you for
 >your attention.
>
>Hey, that's great!  It was just over two years ago you announced
>your "Machine Learning Breakthrough" and told us that you were
>"in possession of a novel and simple technology that promises to
>revolutionize both computer science and artificial intelligence."
>We were only going to have to "wait a few months" for the demo
>(complete with source code) of the AXIS project that was going
>to revolutionize AI.  There was going to be an international
>competitition, with cash prizes, for people applying your ideas
>to tic-tac-toe and chess.  You made claims about XOR logic that
>didn't seem to make any sense, but you dismissed all the skeptics
>by saying that they were just "threatened" by your research.
>Then you went away.  No demo, no contest.  (The whole story is
>available via Deja News.)
>
>And now you are back with *another* AI revolution.  Two AI
>revolutions in just over two years.  Pretty damned impressive.
>
>dj

As I remember it, not only did Marengo Media (thankfully) disappear,
but they promised to stay away!  I believe the reason given was that
they were put off by the fact that people wouldn't believe claims
that had nothing to back them up and were based on mathematics that
was either trivial or wrong.

Well, I *still* won't believe claims that have no support in either
theory or practice.

						Matt Ginsberg