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From: michaelm@bcsaic.UUCP (michael maxwell)
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Subject: Re: Plan 5 for Inner Space - A Sense of Mind.
Message-ID: <536@bcsaic.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 6-May-86 13:56:03 EDT
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Posted: Tue May  6 13:56:03 1986
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In article <281@euclid.warwick.UUCP> gordon@euclid.UUCP (Gordon Joly) writes:
>The following project has been proposed. Design and implement an
>Intelligent System with the following characteristics. The system
>is to run in real time and be portable. Memory and processing units
>must be in the same enclosure, run on low power and not overheat.
>(a) Full colour binocular vision, with motion perception.
>(b) Speech processing and speech synthesis.
>(c) Natural language ability :-
>    (1) Semantic ability
>    (2) Translation.
>    (3) Ability to summarise.
>    (4) Humour (optional).
>(d) Learning ability.
>(e) Ability to control a large number of servo mechanisms, with strength
>    and sensitivity.
>(f) Other tasks, as yet unspecified, but the system must be able
>    to cope with extra requirements, as and when the need arises,
>    using characteristic (d).
>
>Queries: Time to completion? Cost? 
Answers: about nine months, plus a few years training.  And hospitals are
charging on the order of $1000 now; but the care and feeding of the project
will cost more.  You do get a tax break.
Oh, yes. :-)
-- 
Mike Maxwell
Boeing Artificial Intelligence Center
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