1st Ever Artificial Consciousness to be Written in D Language

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On Sunday, 6 September 2015 at 22:49:17 UTC, jqb wrote:
> verging on racism with talk of "Nigerian software"

The term has nothing to do with racism. See 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/419_scams
AFAIK, in Russia, my home, this type of scam is commonly known as 
"Nigerian letters": 
https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Нигерийские_письма
I assume you're an American, because Americans are obsessed with 
racism and overly sensitive in general, they like to bring such 
things up. Funny fact: in Russia, we call black people negros, 
and it's completely normal, just like calling Chinese or Georgian 
people asian. On the other hand, pointing out skin color _is_ 
racist here, no matter if it's black, yellow or white. All this 
stuff is completely culture-dependent, after all.

On the topic: I agree that being rude is not the way do discuss 
things, especially in an IT community (we strive to be smarter 
than the majority of people, don't we?). But I understand the 
skepticism in comments. Best scientists study inner workings of 
human brain and are working on theory of consciousness if you 
will, but current results are far from even understanding it 
completely, let alone building an AI.

And then GrandAxe pops up with this revolutionary software, 
claiming that Okeuvo company built an AI. However, that claim is 
not supported by anything and reminds me of the Unlimited Detail 
technology by Euclideon, which was announced in a similar manner, 
promising a revolution in graphics rendering. As you can see, 
it's far from it, despite the fact they were given $2 million by 
the Australian government. It seems like this revolution takes a 
little bit more effort, than was anticipated :)
And there's no reason to think Okeuvo's technology is different 
in that sense.

In general, I tend to not trust people, who claim that their 
technology _will_ do this and that, revolutionize something and 
so on. Show me a working technology first, sell it later. 
Otherwise it's nothing but promises, and I'm not interested in 
that, because everybody can create a website and make promises. 
This thread should be posted at the release date, with "will do 
something" replaced by "does something", supported by a working 
demo that anybody can download without giving up their social 
security number, sexual preferences and whatnot. And in this 
particular case, it should be also supported by scientific 
papers, since they claim to solve such a huge scientific problem 
of the 21th century.