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Nanomagazine interviews Mentifex on independent AI scholarship

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AI has been solved.

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GreatMindsWorking selling Mentifex AI4U: Mind-1.1 Programmer's Manual

So if that's a goal of ours, perhaps it's a goal of another race's. And perhaps they got a head start on us, and that large percentage of "dark matter" actually consists of Dyson Spheres which capture everything, so are "undetectable" by us. That's pretty scary, to think that we just lost that much playground, and will eventually have to deal with the bully--on his own terms perhaps.

I mentioned this a year ago or so, and someone pointed me in the direction of Matrioshka Brains, so I will include some links for that as well. And an excellent discussion.

I would add to the last part that the larger planets could be taken apart by space elevators as well. They'd just start with the upper atmosphere; then work their way down. All the time the mass is getting smaller, and the elevators are pulling mass out so they can make themselves bigger in order to reach deeper. I think it's workable, and appears to be the most efficient way to do it--get the mass all out into "orbit" first. Actually, when you're about halfway done you can then start shipping what you mine off to other locations, and taking that amount of mass out of the elevators as well since they won't need to counterbalance as the planet's now smaller. (I don't know what the mathematical "middle point" where you start dismantling the elevators actually is--it could be something other than 50%.)

We could have "planet splitter seeds" which we shoot off to other stars, and they start with a tiny, correctly-placed elevator and build more of them as fast as is physically possible; the seed would be smart enough to calculate all the masses and start with the most effective one that would lead to the earliest date at which the entire mass of the star system is being used for computation.

The only problem is if we encounter life. Will our machines just assimilate it? Are the ones out there programmed to preserve us? Have they already done so?

Association for Computing Machinery on Mentifex artificial intelligence

Ben Goertzel, Ph.D., on Mentifex artificial intelligence

Comprehensive Perl Archive Network: Mentifex AI mind.txt gameplan

Free Software Donation Directory: Mentifex AI Project

Nanomagazine interviews Mentifex on independent AI scholarship

Redpaper archive of Mentifex documents on artificial intelligence

Agents Portal selling Mentifex AI4U textbook of artificial intelligence

GameDev.net selling Mentifex AI4U textbook of artificial intelligence

GreatMindsWorking selling Mentifex AI4U: Mind-1.1 Programmer's Manual

Association for Computing Machinery on Mentifex artificial intelligence

Ben Goertzel, Ph.D., on Mentifex artificial intelligence

Comprehensive Perl Archive Network: Mentifex AI mind.txt gameplan

Free Software Donation Directory: Mentifex AI Project

Nanomagazine interviews Mentifex on independent AI scholarship

Redpaper archive of Mentifex documents on artificial intelligence

AI has been solved.

Agents Portal selling Mentifex AI4U textbook of artificial intelligence

GameDev.net selling Mentifex AI4U textbook of artificial intelligence

GreatMindsWorking selling Mentifex AI4U: Mind-1.1 Programmer's Manual

SourceForge Mentifex Donations Page

Structure? We don't need no steenking structure.

Anything beyond an AI Army of One will be unable to come up with a sufficiently complex Concept-Fiber Theory of Mind to start coding True AI or Good Old Fashioned AI (GOFAI) in JavaScript for teaching AI and in Forth for robots.

A minor problem with the sole-source, lone-inventor Organizational Model for Open Source is that funding is almost impossible to obtain, unless you get your project listed in the Free Software Donation Directory or you write a book about your Open Source software. Even then, the sheeple will hound you as a crackpot, a 'Net-loon or a crank, with the result that even here on SlashDot the vicious malcontents will take up the cry and none of the world-famous Slashdot book reviewers will dare to write a reasonable, mind-opening review of your book, with the result that you will fall off the edge of the Open Source world into oblivion, but it won't matter what has happened to your Army of One, because your Open Source software will have advanced the State of the Art.

The best and most terrifying document about Artificial Intelligence that I have ever read is Vernor Vinge on Technological Singularity.

Consequently when my independent-scholar Open Source AI project caused me to be interviewed about it by Nanomagazine, I made sure in my low-status interview to refer hero-worshippingly to on-high Vernor Vinge,whom I thank for lighting the path for all us AI geeks.

The best and most terrifying document about Artificial Intelligence that I have ever read is Vernor Vinge on Technological Singularity.

Consequently when my independent-scholar Open Source AI project caused me to be interviewed about it by Nanomagazine, I made sure in my low-status interview to refer hero-worshippingly to on-high Vernor Vinge,whom I thank for lighting the path for all us AI geeks.

The best and most terrifying document about Artificial Intelligence that I have ever read is Vernor Vinge on Technological Singularity.

Consequently when my independent-scholar Open Source AI project caused me to be interviewed about it by Nanomagazine, I made sure in my low-status interview to refer hero-worshippingly to on-high Vernor Vinge,whom I thank for lighting the path for all us AI geeks.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has not yet seen the darkest days of the 'Net -- they are yet to come, because bourgeois plutocratic society at first tries to ignore disruptive technology, and then after a hysteresis interval of ca. ten or twenty years, moves crescendo-wise to stifle, stymie and stamp out all our beloved freedoms. This bourgeois counter-attact against us Freedom Fighters of the Digital World threatens to grow in intensity and repressive severity as we approach the Technological Singularity of artificial intelligence.

The bourgeois country club oligarchs will especially not tolerate the emergence of intelligent robots evolving towards full civil rights on a par with human beings and towards superintelligence beyond any human IQ, based on nanotechnology and the new understanding of the brain.

We humans and we robot cyborgs owe a lot to the EFF, and the greatest struggles are yet to come.

Such extraordinary ceramic photocells are potentially the building blocks of the artificially intelligent Cyborg -- only now coming of age as robotics and massively parallel processing (MPP) and Good Old-Fashioned True Artificial Intelligence march together into the Technological Singularity of an unpredictable future.

Carver Mead saw it coming as he built an artificial retina, but for a long time the intractable problem of computer vision held up the design of the AI Mind that started out in Forth for robots and has meanwhile branched out into Visual Basic Mind.VB and into Java-based Mind.JAVA AI.

These National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Bionic Eyes are just the thing for outfitting AI robots with Machine Vision in a new Manhattan Project to create Artificial Intelligence. Slashdotters ought to see here not only the chance of an individual lifetime but the chance of lifetime-trajectory of an entire species -- humanity, that is -- gathering up all these parts (Bionic Eyes) and theory and Open Source AI code and proceeding to assemble our successor life-form. We have the technology -- we can make it better, faster, stronger.... Only crazy AI geeks need apply.... Put your Bionic Ears to the ground and hear the thundering robot footsteps, then help us, we can't do it alone, we need your brains and your coding skills to take us further beyond where we of limited ability have managed to crawl -- a Bionic Eyes Only message to you from Mentifex.

Nanotech isn't just for breakfast anymore, it's also for extremely miniature Artificial Intelligence.

Of course, the AI Mind will have to migrate from public-domain Macro AI down into nanotech-based molecular or even quantum AI, but the race is on to Technological Singularity!

IMHO SourceForge is the most dynamic idea-platform for parsecs around, if not in the known universe.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/mind has become the main focus of my Lebenswerk or life-work since 18 July 2001 when the AI Mind project was cleared on SourceForge for go-ahead to the coming Technological Singularity.

As of this morning on Mon.12.NOV.2001, there were 369 Open Source projects in Artificial Intelligence on SourceForge. In my self-appointed but arguably well-deserved role as a purveyor of AI theory (see Nanomagazine interview), very truly yours Mentifex here has been working to draw all the AI projects together under a common theory-umbrella -- not forcing the Mentifex theory down anybody's throat, but offering the Theory of Mind as something to react against and improve upon. Just today the Mind-to-C liaison page was updated with links to some of the pre-eminent AI-in-C projects on SourceForge.

If SourceForge were to fail, it would be a sad day for the future of all humanity.

Although my Rebol page on GeoCities suddenly and inexplicably disappeared with all the other Mentifex AI files on Wed.6.JUN.2001, as a first, last and always Amiga user I was proud to include Rebol as a candidate AI language before I acquired a SourceForge AI project and pared own the list of AI languages to the fifteen being used in SourceForge AI projects.

Carl Sassenrath was a driving force behind the development of the 1985 Amiga 1000 computer that was way ahead of its time, and which served as the development platform for the initial AI Mind in Amiga ARexx. (Nanomagazine describes how an initially Amiga-platform "PD AI" project got kicked off freshmeat.net when the AI moved to the Microsoft Windows environment.)

If Carl Sassenrath can work on REBOL against all odds, then we lesser lights take inspiration from him to work on public-domain Artificial Minds.