All that used to be known was that it happened, it cost $1 million, and caused the creator Chris McKinstry to live life in self exile in Chile. For a while, it was unclear who was in the cast, the amount of episodes, how far it got into production, or even the plot. He eventually fled to Chile where he would live most of his remaining days.ĭetails are scarce on CR6 and are nearly impossible to come by online. From all accounts, production was a disaster, with almost every single person who worked on the project alleging that they were never paid for their work. In 1997, he created and produced the internet soap opera CR6, a venture which supposedly lost over $1 million and caused him to burn almost every bridge he had left in Canada and America. It ran from 2000 to 2005.' According to programmers in the field, this itself was a huge undertaking, and they credit Chris for being the pioneer for this kind of A.I.

He was the head developer of Mindpixel, which to quote from Wikipedia 'was a web-based collaborative artificial intelligence project which aimed to create a knowledgebase of millions of human validated true/false statements, or probabilistic propositions. technology, and those who remember him now are mostly programmers who recall how important his work was. Although these claims were disputed, Chris' website provides a news article from the April 9th, 1984 edition of the Winnipeg Free Press that seems to confirm he did at least develop and sell the program, though not his claims of making millions from it. He would license the software out to multiple billion dollar companies, claiming to make him a millionaire at the age of 17.Īt the age of 17, he claimed that he was already rich thanks to inventing an anti-copy protection code that he apparently licensed out for use to multiple high profile companies. Chris McKinstry in 1984, featured in an article describing his anti-copying software.

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