Hi all,
In the story “The Riddle of the Universe and Its Solution”, a man
called Dizzard, who worked for the development of artificial intelligence
software, died during his work. At that time, people just predicted that his
death was caused by dehydration because he had not moved for several days.
However, when some of Dizzard’s students, who followed his unfinished project,
died with the symptoms as like him, people started to concern about that case.
As all of them got coma before they died, people called it to be “Riddle coma”.
But, it was not the end. People who touch the “similar areas of artificial
intelligence” or “familiar with formal methods developed by Dizzard” got the
Riddle coma too. “The outbreak of a Riddle coma epidemic in connection with a
com- puter-assisted theorem-proving project could be explained; if someone
discovered the Riddle in his head, he should lapse into coma before he could
communicate it to anyone.” However, experiment under animal showed that Riddle
coma affect only human. There is no way to solve the problem of “Riddle coma”,
but as Cherniak said we can "decrease further coma outbreaks".
Jimmy Yam
205194402
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