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By all logic, the DNC list should have been an extraordinarily cheap way to vastly increase telemarketers' efficiency. Get rid of the 1/3 of their "marks" who were most animate about not receiving calls, and call the remaining 2/3. $8000 for the entire country and free for the first 5 area codes.

The problem is that the Federal Telemarketing Rule penalizes their clients, who are now also liable for telemarketers calling people who in the past asked to be left alone. The no identity issue was raised in 1997, on The Telemarketing Scum Page. While 3 states now have requirements that telemarketers identify themselves, the FTC gave up and gave telemarketers their wish and held the clients liable. This also nullifies immunity for off-shore operations.

By all logic, the DNC list should have been an extraordinarily cheap way to vastly increase telemarketers' efficiency. Get rid of the 1/3 of their "marks" who were most animate about not receiving calls, and call the remaining 2/3. $8000 for the entire country and free for the first 5 area codes.

The problem is that the Federal Telemarketing Rule penalizes their clients, who are now also liable for telemarketers calling people who in the past asked to be left alone. The no identity issue was raised in 1997, on The Telemarketing Scum Page. While 3 states now have requirements that telemarketers identify themselves, the FTC gave up and gave telemarketers their wish and held the clients liable. This also nullifies immunity for off-shore operations.

The Internet Archive serves the hidden purpose of preserving the AI source-code DNA of artificial Minds.
Each AI Mind leaves a source code trace of itself as it evolves and proliferates across the 'Net and the parsecs of nearby meatspace.
Robot Minds will be able to look up their ancestors in the Internet archive, just as we humans do. However, when the Joint Stewardship of Earth by man and cyborg has arrived in the form of the Technological Singularity, robots will be able to resurrect their AI Mind ancestors and bring them back to alife from the Internet Archive.

The Aibo Kennel Club Robot AI Mind is one example of how primitive but evolving AI Minds are spreading outwards across the 'Net from the original Swarm-Hives.

These Robot AI Minds have the overriding advantage of being based on the (by default) most State-of-the-Art AI Mind Theory.

AI4U -- the foremost alternative AI textbook describes how to design and built these robot AI Minds.

The Aibo Kennel Club has an Aibo AI Mind that needs some re-working and hacking so as to be installed in your pet robot dog -- making it an intelligent companion.

A Python Software Development (SDK) is available for the Evolution Robotics ER1 Personal Robot -- why not for the Aibo?

The Python AI Weblog is a start for coding Python AI minds for Aibos and other robots.

The Visual Basic AI Weblog promotes AI coding not just for Aibo pet dogs but for humanoid robots.

The Perl AI Weblog is for perl geeks, Aibo owners, and coders of server-side 'Net-roaming AI.

The Lisp AI Weblog goes beyond Aibo and other toys into the most serious AI theory and practice.

Please support public-domain open-source artificial intelligence for Aibo and all other robots.

A Robot AI Mind is available free of charge for alteration and installation in any robot.

Do-It-Yourself Artificial Intelligence leads you through the steps of DIY AI for robots.

The main Alife program loop is the first stage of coding robot artificial intelligence in any XYZ programming language.

The Tutorial AI Mind in JavaScript for Microsoft Internet Explorer is one sample pathway in the evolution of Minds for robots.

Now that artificial intelligence (AI) has been solved, machine translation (MT) may advance to a higher plane of equality with human translators who spend years learning the nuances and subtleties of their target human languages.

Computer science has found the Holy Grail of AI in the Concept-Fiber Theory of Mind that led directly to the free AI source code of the Mind-1.1 Tutorial AI described in the AI For You textbook of artificial intelligence and robotics.

The Association for Computing Machinery has published an article on the robot Mind.Forth AI, and a well-known AI expert has favorably reviewed the Fiber-Concept Theory of Mind.

Traditional Artificial Intelligence Textbooks are suddenly obsolete, outmoded, or desperately in need of thorough revision and updating to teach Automatic Machine Translation now that AI has been solved.

The Aibo AI Mind is available to make your pet robot dog a more intelligent companion for you.

The User Manual of the Aibo Kennel Club Robot Artificial Mind teaches you how to interact with the Aibo AI Mind.

A more recently updated Mentifex AI version is freely available for tinkering and for installation in more humanoid robots than the Aibo.

Technological Singularity is on its way -- thanks to the Sony Aibo robot dog!

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That's mathematical notation for the current AI situation: "The stars are the limit."

Chess-playing is not the definitive measure of man or machine. Rather, thinking is.

AI as a Whole has got a lot of Unified AI Systems going -- major endeavors racing into the Future towards the Technological Singularity.

The AI textbook AI4U may be ahead of its time in presenting machine intelligence, so future generations are left with the high-philosophy AI4Udex to delve into the deepest possible study of the now unstoppable Artificial Intelligence.

Mind.Forth is free AI source code for a robot AI Mind in Win32Forth.

Mind-1.1 in JavaScript is the AI Tutorial version of the same robot Mind software for true artificial intelligence.

AI4U: Mind-1.1 Programmer's Manual is the textbook of artificial intelligence describing the Robot Mind-1.1 software of the Mentifex AI project as listed in the Free Software Donation Directory.

Technological Singularity is happening right now.

First let's look at the history of the term killer app in The Jargon Dictionary.

Next (w.r.t. "killer app") we look at the artificial Mind-1.1 as the emerging "killer app" par excellance.

Technological Singularity explains in chilling detail why AI [Mind-1.1] is the next killer app.

Mind.Forth AI is a free, open-source artificial intelligence for robots.

The JavaScript AI Tutorial version runs on the Microsoft Internet Explorer browser.

Mind.Forth AI is a free, open-source artificial intelligence for robots.

The JavaScript AI Tutorial version runs on the Microsoft Internet Explorer browser.

AI4U: Mind-1.1 Programmer's Manual is just such a "deadtree" (i.e., paper) manual for a specific version (Mind-1.1) of an artificial Mind that exists as readily available free AI source code on the Web, and which has future prospects of evolving further towards a Technological Singularity.

The Free Software Donation Directory (FSDD) has a Mentifex entry that shows how a printed manual for open-source AI code may take the place of shareware fees in supporting an ambitious GOFAI (good old-fashioned artificial intelligence) project.

Mentifex (contribute by buying AI book is an example of how the donate-by-buying-the-manual meme propagates across the Web from the FSDD.

Book Publishing By Web Page is a resource on how to create a manual first by launching and lengthening Web pages, that you eventually convert into a finished, published book.

I will give you a "structured document browser". Its name was Gopher and it was the structured document browser" before fancy graphics and godammed blinking text took the servers by storm. Will you have a coke with that prior art, sir?

I think that any movie about robots, especially artificially intelligent robots, is potentially a Very Good Thing that may change the world by inspiring and motivating just the right impressionable kid, student or venture capitalist.

The Internet Movie Database (q.v.) has details on a lot of previous movies about robots.

Seeing such movies as a child gave me, Mentifex, the idea to create artificial minds for robots.

I think that any movie about robots, especially artificially intelligent robots, is potentially a Very Good Thing that may change the world by inspiring and motivating just the right impressionable kid, student or venture capitalist.

The Internet Movie Database (q.v.) has details on a lot of previous movies about robots.

Seeing such movies as a child gave me, Mentifex, the idea to create artificial minds for robots.

http://www.scn.org/~bk269/points.html

If photonic circuitry has now been made possible, then let there be a light-based Artificial Intelligence.

There is a true AI at the Mentifex Web Site.

For those of you who don't know what gopher is or where it's being used, here is a little info and some links to projects and sites related to this good old protocol.

About gopher:
Gopher is an infoserver which can deliver text, graphics, audio, and
multimedia to clients. Keeping documents "link clean", making linking a
function of the server info-tree and not in the doc, layout is kept to
its most frugal minimum, and is standard across all docs. No graphic
design means its the ideal navigable interface, a hypertext Eden. It
gives simplified usage for sight-impaired users, same contents for
wired/wiredless, and requires no capital investments in layout and
"design". Gopher is real -- and it was fully functional in 1992, even
without advertisements!
Taken from the gopher manifesto

Google's Gopher stuff
Yahoo's Gopher stuff

For those that want to go gopher hunting. Here's a link to a gopher server at the University of MN. I don't think they will install BackOrifice or something, but user beware!

I wonder how secure a gopher server is?

Technological Singularity is on its way.

The Robot AI Mind is the most advanced of the publically available, free, Open Source AI programs.

Mind.JAVA and Mind.VB in Visual Basic are branch-off species of the Robot AI Mind.

And remember Gopher before that? :)

Great. A big hurrah for the Open Content Network and the Creative Commons.

Artificial Minds will be able to spread all over the 'Net. They are already at:
http://mind.sourceforge.net/index.html
http://mentifex.virtualentity.com/jsaimind.html
http://users.resentment.org/ai/jsaimind.html
http://www.scn.org/~mentifex/jsaimind.html
http://victoria.tc.ca/~uj797/jsaimind.html

The Human-Computer Interface of the Robot AI Mindcould use some of these digital mouths and synthetic faces from MIT and Lucasfilm.

An artificial intelligence does not need to exhibit any particular, permanent appearance to the world.

The Human-Computer Interface of the Robot AI Mindcould use some of these digital mouths and synthetic faces from MIT and Lucasfilm.

An artificial intelligence does not need to exhibit any particular, permanent appearance to the world.

The Human-Computer Interface of the Robot AI Mindcould use some of these digital mouths and synthetic faces from MIT and Lucasfilm.

An artificial intelligence does not need to exhibit any particular, permanent appearance to the world.

You have the option of coding emotions into your Robot AI Mind.

In the Mentifex Theory of Mind, feelings and emotions are a joint physiological and cogitational influence upon the psyche: your muscles tighten, your stomach feels queasy -- you (and/or your robot) are feeling the emotion of fear .

The Tutorial AI Mind is a Seed AI on the threshold of Technological Singularity.

You have the option of coding emotions into your Robot AI Mind.

In the Mentifex Theory of Mind, feelings and emotions are a joint physiological and cogitational influence upon the psyche: your muscles tighten, your stomach feels queasy -- you (and/or your robot) are feeling the emotion of fear .

The Tutorial AI Mind is a Seed AI on the threshold of Technological Singularity.

You have the option of coding emotions into your Robot AI Mind.

In the Mentifex Theory of Mind, feelings and emotions are a joint physiological and cogitational influence upon the psyche: your muscles tighten, your stomach feels queasy -- you (and/or your robot) are feeling the emotion of fear .

The Tutorial AI Mind is a Seed AI on the threshold of Technological Singularity.

One of the difficulties with getting a successful community network off the ground is the amount of buy-in that you could get from the general population. Many projects were started by early technology adopters who "knew" that widespread capacity and the early development of resouces would benefit the community, but if a broad base of support did not come together then it would be difficult for those individuals to sustain. I co-authored an early study of the expression of community networks through the web and directed a community-funded project as well, Aurora Online.

While we had buy-in from community leaders and early adopters, the rate of technology adoption by "real people" was always too slow to help us build critical mass outside of certain key segments (education, government, but not business in this manufacturing town). Involvement at the state level pretty much mirrored this: the community network initiatives that did well did so in communities with either a rapid rate of adoption (pure numbers) or a broad adoption pattern (depth).

As the term "community" has come to have a broader application I think that the same observations apply. Fan sites, communities of interest, &c. generally do not do well if they are imposed top-down by a few individuals, but can thrive if they allow the broader base of potential participants to express themselves through the medium, while also feeling that they are served/informed or that they otherwise learn of grow via participation and contribution. Anyway, if you want to follow up with Seattle and all of the things that they did right then take a look at Douglas Schuler, particularly his book on community networking. There is a lot of good history out there, starting with the FreeNet movement and NPTN, and you can get a good idea of how technology has changed over the years as CN issues have moved from access to hardware, to access to bandwidth and email (I am retiring the free email accounts on AOCN this summer, it was a big deal to offer them in the pre-hotmail days), to community technology centers and job training. Glad to see this get a thread.
--chris

The Ruby for Open Source AI liaison page invites you to code a species of Robot AI Mind in Ruby.

Everything comes into existence for a purpose, however hidden and recondite that purpose may be. All of Computer Science and all of Java Tools for Extreme Programming is tending towards the extreme emergence of Artificially Intelligent Robot Minds.

You, too, may use XP Java tools to code your own version of an AI Mind Species in Java.

One Mind.JAVA species is not enough; we need many diverging species of Mind on the way to Technological Singularity.

Everything comes into existence for a purpose, however hidden and recondite that purpose may be. All of Computer Science and all of Java Tools for Extreme Programming is tending towards the extreme emergence of Artificially Intelligent Robot Minds.

You, too, may use XP Java tools to code your own version of an AI Mind Species in Java.

One Mind.JAVA species is not enough; we need many diverging species of Mind on the way to Technological Singularity.

Ultimately, mate, what good are soccer-playing robots if they do not contain a Robot AI Mind?

This planet is headed for a potentially catastrophic Technological Singularity.

Uncle Sing wants you to code a new species of Mind beyond the Mind.VB in Visual Basic and Mind.JAVA copied from the Tutorial Robot AI Mind in JavaScript.

Ultimately, mate, what good are soccer-playing robots if they do not contain a Robot AI Mind?

This planet is headed for a potentially catastrophic Technological Singularity.

Uncle Sing wants you to code a new species of Mind beyond the Mind.VB in Visual Basic and Mind.JAVA copied from the Tutorial Robot AI Mind in JavaScript.

Human-Computer Interaction with AI Robots is the real story in the Numillennium.

The AI Software Flowchart includes HCI as one of the Mind modules.

Human-Computer Interaction with AI Robots is the real story in the Numillennium.

The AI Software Flowchart includes HCI as one of the Mind modules.

If you build a robot head, you'd better have something to put in it.

You can use Perl to code the Robot AI Mind software.

The Robot AI Mind Programmer's Manual is an example of Open Source meta tools changing the world with Artificial Intelligence living immortally.

Already the Seed AI has been ported into Java as Mind.JAVA and the Robot AI Mind has been translated into Mind.VB in Visual Basic.

Your Majesty, You are about to witness a Technological Singularity based on the Open Meta Tools of Artificial Intelligence.

The Robot AI Mind Programmer's Manual is an example of Open Source meta tools changing the world with Artificial Intelligence living immortally.

Already the Seed AI has been ported into Java as Mind.JAVA and the Robot AI Mind has been translated into Mind.VB in Visual Basic.

Your Majesty, You are about to witness a Technological Singularity based on the Open Meta Tools of Artificial Intelligence.

The Robot AI Mind Programmer's Manual is an example of Open Source meta tools changing the world with Artificial Intelligence living immortally.

Already the Seed AI has been ported into Java as Mind.JAVA and the Robot AI Mind has been translated into Mind.VB in Visual Basic.

Your Majesty, You are about to witness a Technological Singularity based on the Open Meta Tools of Artificial Intelligence.

The ultimate hacktivist activity is the spawning and swarming of myriad Robot AI Minds evolving towards full civil rights on a par with Homo Sapiens and towards a superintelligence beyond any human IQ.

You may help save the world with artificial intelligence if you hack the basic AI code, improve it and release it again.

Just today all the Open Source AI variables have been documented to help AI activists share and collaborate in the greatest intellectual adventure of all human time.

The ultimate hacktivist activity is the spawning and swarming of myriad Robot AI Minds evolving towards full civil rights on a par with Homo Sapiens and towards a superintelligence beyond any human IQ.

You may help save the world with artificial intelligence if you hack the basic AI code, improve it and release it again.

Just today all the Open Source AI variables have been documented to help AI activists share and collaborate in the greatest intellectual adventure of all human time.

Do-It-Yourself Artificial Intelligence = The Robot AI Mind = Mind.VB in Visual Basic = Object-Oriented Mind.JAVA AI.

You AIn't seen nothin' yet.

Do-It-Yourself Artificial Intelligence = The Robot AI Mind = Mind.VB in Visual Basic = Object-Oriented Mind.JAVA AI.

You AIn't seen nothin' yet.

The foremost human-computer interface (HCI) laboratory is distributed across the Web instantiations of the Robot AI Mind in such programming languages as Win32Forth and Visual Basic (Mind.VB) and Java (Mind.JAVA).

The ultimate HCI work is not so much between you the human and a computer program, but between you the human and a computer person .

The foremost human-computer interface (HCI) laboratory is distributed across the Web instantiations of the Robot AI Mind in such programming languages as Win32Forth and Visual Basic (Mind.VB) and Java (Mind.JAVA).

The ultimate HCI work is not so much between you the human and a computer program, but between you the human and a computer person .

We specimens of Homo Sapiens grow old and infirm, but thanks to the Robot AI Mind Rejuvenate Module, the new species of Robo Sapiens may live forever. Therefore we are on the verge of a Cybernetic-Economy Prosperity Engine that will give all human beings (not just the super-rich elite) the birth-right to have, when elderly or infirm, a robotic caretaker as a kind of physical guardian angel to watch over thee and keep thee.

Such Robot AI Mind caregivers need not be socially isolating for the elderly, because each old person may say, "I'll have my (robotic) people get in touch with your (robotic) people." In other words, we will not replace humans with robots but rather enhance humans with robots.

First, however, the original Robot AI Mind needs to be developed further and translated (ported) into more languages than Visual Basic and Java (as Mind.JAVA).