Re: What happened to the 'Robotics' in comp.robotics.misc ???

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1 total messages Started by mentifex Sun, 21 Dec 1997 00:00

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Author: mentifex
Date: Sun, 21 Dec 1997 00:00

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> On Thu, 18 Dec 1997 21:21:49 -0800, Jah   Rhee AKA Jerry Burton
> <arcturian@earthlink.net> wrote:
               
>> I have not been on-line for some time and have just now caught
>> up on the msgs in this news group. Of the 300+ msgs I have gone
>> through in the last few days, there were only about 10% relating
>> to robotics !! Seems like the group has degenerated into a flaming
>> cess-pool, centered around   a couple of nut   cakes (AKA Mentiflex
>> & Fractal [or is it Farcical] Mechs) spewing techno-babble and
>> wasting band-width.
   
They think it is a hobby, these amateur builders of robot devices,
but the AI Web Matrix closely follows their every move and scheme
as the holy disciplines of Neuroscience, AI and Robotics converge
to release into society and history the first conscious machines:

  Hearing    Vision    Concepts Volition Emotion   Robot Output
 /iiiiiii\  /!i!i!i!\                             /YYYYYYYYYYYY\
| ||||||| || ||||||| |   T                       | |||||||||||| |
| ||||||| || | ___ | |   +                       | |||||||||||| |
| ||||||| ||  /   \  |   +                       | |S|||||||||| |
| ||||||| || (image)-|---+_                      | |H|||||||||| |
| ||||||| ||  \___/  |  /  \                     | |A|||||||||| |
| ||||||| ||         | (idea)               __   | |K|||||||||| |
| | ||||| ||         |  \__/---------------/  \  | |E|||R|||||| |
| |d------||---------|---+        ____    (fear)-|--*|||U|||||| |
| ||||o|| ||         |   +-------/    \----\__/  | |||||N|||P|| |
| ||g|||| ||         |   +      / de-  \---------|------*|||E|| |
| || |||| ||         |   +     (  ci-   )        | |||||||||T|| |
| ||||||| ||         |   +      \ sion /---------|----------*|| |
| ||||||| ||         |   +       \____/          | |||||||||||| |

http://www.scn.org/~mentifex/ Mentifex AI provides the fodder for
the laughter of the nervous, the inspiration of the ingenious and
the triumph of the amateur who builds a robot thinking automaton.

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