the Daily Whale - 3 July 1992

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Japan’s Fifth Generation Computer research project failed, so now they have started a Sixth Generation project.

clue:

The Fifth Generation Computer Project, announced in 1981, was a Japanese government-funded attempt to develop advanced parallel computers and artificial intelligence applications to run on them. The computers worked, the artificial intelligence didn’t.

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