Kevin Driscoll 📳੯‧̀͡⬮Artist Dmitry Soshnikov used archived messages from EXEC PC to train a FidoNet LLM and generate endless #echomail conversations:
*> "FIDONet spirit is alive again, but FIDONet simulacrum that you see is populated not by the living people, but by their cybernetical immortal digital twins, that talk to each other infinitely in the realms of modern datacenters"*
https://soshnikov.com/art/fidoci/
(NB: the installation displays pre-generated messages to "minimize the carbon footprint")
FIDONet Cybernetic Immortality
I am Associate Professor at Higher School of Economics and Moscow Aviation Institute, Technical Lead of AI Lab and HSE School or Art and Design, ex-Microsoft for 16 year, doing Technical Evangelism, AI/ML and F#. I teach AI and Functional/Logic Programming. Passionate father, Digital Artist, Gun Fu Cha master, etc. Opinions are my own and not those of my employers.