Path: csiph.com!weretis.net!feeder4.news.weretis.net!newsreader4.netcologne.de!news.netcologne.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: "764hho" <764hho@nospam.com> Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: From punch cards to smartphones Date: Sun, 3 Apr 2016 03:14:18 +1000 Lines: 49 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net HLEP85PNzSw1HY+Sj5I2og4VWVdVfLimL2p1KsCV/qHj8ETig= Cancel-Lock: sha1:f0SFy4bpdTd3obbhjX8gv+bEJr4= In-Reply-To: X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal Importance: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Windows Live Mail 14.0.8117.416 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V14.0.8117.416 Xref: csiph.com alt.folklore.computers:161828 wrote in message news:eee7509c-43ad-4693-83ef-35915eb22899@googlegroups.com... > On Saturday, April 2, 2016 at 1:43:15 AM UTC-7, 764hho wrote: >> "Bob Martin" wrote in message >> news:dm974vF6vh5U1@mid.individual.net... >> > >> > Interesting article on BBC news : >> > >> > http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-35924858 >> > >> > "After World War II, Britain was a hotbed of pioneering computer >> > research. >> > Work done on automatic ways to crack codes and spot enemy aircraft >> > meant it had a skilled cadre of engineers and scientists equipped with >> > the knowledge to create powerful and practical computers." >> >> And they basically blew it and the yanks ruled the world of computers. > > The Russians have a chance to win the whole ball of wax with > > http://www.nlg-wiki.org/systems/Dushka -- Strong AI in Russian > > and with the Ghost Perl Webserver AI in Russian and English at > > http://wiki.opencog.org/wikihome/index.php/Ghost > > plus the advances towards Russian AI being discussed at > > https://geektimes.ru and > > http://gotai.net/forum > > -- > http://www.sourcecodeonline.com/details/ghost_perl_webserver_strong_ai.html Can't see them winning the whole ball of wax that way myself. They haven't even managed to get close to what Airbus had achieved with the use of AI in heavy aircraft or anything like it either, for various reasons. Same with cars and smartphones. The problem is that you need to have cutting edge industries that can usefully use that stuff to get anywhere with it and Russia doesn't. I can't even think of a single Russian app that dominates the entire world in its area that most use.