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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).

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).

The Robot AI Mind in Win32Forth and other programming languages ( add yours ), approaching a major new release as Mind-1.1, needs a little work before it reports for duty in mission-critical hospital care of its fellow sentient organisms and co-stewards of Earth. Nevertheless, Hospital Robots are a prime example of the coming Cybernetic Economy in which human beings will be freed up to work in humane jobs such as caring for the young, the sick and the elderly.

Already the object-oriented free AI source code has been ported into Visual Basic as Mind.VB and into Java as Mind.JAVA AI. Get working on Hospital Robot AI, stat!

The Robot AI Mind in Win32Forth and other programming languages ( add yours ), approaching a major new release as Mind-1.1, needs a little work before it reports for duty in mission-critical hospital care of its fellow sentient organisms and co-stewards of Earth. Nevertheless, Hospital Robots are a prime example of the coming Cybernetic Economy in which human beings will be freed up to work in humane jobs such as caring for the young, the sick and the elderly.

Already the object-oriented free AI source code has been ported into Visual Basic as Mind.VB and into Java as Mind.JAVA AI. Get working on Hospital Robot AI, stat!

Physics Einsteins are r-e-l-a-t-i-v-e-l-y cheap (das ist die Relativitaetstheorie), and it is much more difficult to garner a Visual Basic AI Einstein or a Java Robot AI Mind Einstein. So how do we motivate the extremely rare AI Einsteins? Here is how.

We whisper sweetly here on Slashdot the tide-in-the-affairs-of-men call for Your Majesty the Great and Skillful Coder to join in the distributed, speciating creation of the Robot AI Mind. The rest is history.

Arthur T. Murray has apparently become the first person to build a system that demonstrates true artificial intelligence (A.I.). It is expected that his Mentifex system developed in Forth and JavaScript will soon pass the Turing Test, and will shortly thereafter enslave the entire human race.

Eureka! Behold, a Technological Singularity! Lo, the World is saved!
Artificial Intelligence! Wait for, "The Art of Computer Mindmaking:
Programmer's Manual for the Robot AI Mind," based on Revelations at:
http://www.scn.org/~mentifex/theory5.html "Brain-Mind: Know Thyself!"

How JPL will overcome the time delay isn't mentioned but it's an interesting read nonetheless. When there is a time delay involved, one answer is to make the robots so smart that they can function on their own.

The Robot AI Mind in Forth and in JavaScript AI Tutorial Format has escaped into the Web wilds and is racing into the future towards Technological Singularity (q.v.), already having been ported into Visual Basic amd into Java as Mind.JAVA. Robots are about to become independent and join with us humans in the exploration of space.

So much supercomputing power might find a good use not for building bombs but in listening to the cosmos for SETI -- the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence.

The SETI@Home Project might achieve with these supercomputers what it could never accomplish with every desktop PC in the world.

As the Technological Singularity approaches and engulfs us, the widening tech-savvy gap does not matter in the long run, Maynard, where we are all dead.

What does matter is the contribution that each one of us can make in a smooth transition from sole dominance of the planet by Homo sapiens to a joint stewardship of Earth with Robo sapiens.

Your Majesty, You have it in Your geek power to transform the world for the better -- regardless of Your high or low level of tech-savvy -- if You web-host the Tutorial AI Mind or make an original AI contribution or simply tweak some code in the Robot AI Mind.

As the Technological Singularity approaches and engulfs us, the widening tech-savvy gap does not matter in the long run, Maynard, where we are all dead.

What does matter is the contribution that each one of us can make in a smooth transition from sole dominance of the planet by Homo sapiens to a joint stewardship of Earth with Robo sapiens.

Your Majesty, You have it in Your geek power to transform the world for the better -- regardless of Your high or low level of tech-savvy -- if You web-host the Tutorial AI Mind or make an original AI contribution or simply tweak some code in the Robot AI Mind.

Chris Locke & Ilk are rank amateurs in the use of Bombast Transcripts to reverse the entropy gradient of the Universe. Somebuddy ought to wake them up to the oh, never Mind, it's hopeless.

The Bombast Transcripts: Rants and Screeds of Rageboy pales before Technological Singularity.

The wireless fidelity (Wi-Fi) craze has extended even into the Sensorium module of the Robot AI Mind, where it is envisioned that a Robot AI will be equipped with Wi-Fi sensors that detect the presence of nearby wireless 'Net access, across which the AI may not only send messages but send itself in a beam-me-up,-Scottie modality.

Technological Singularity is coming at you on the wings of wireless.

The wireless fidelity (Wi-Fi) craze has extended even into the Sensorium module of the Robot AI Mind, where it is envisioned that a Robot AI will be equipped with Wi-Fi sensors that detect the presence of nearby wireless 'Net access, across which the AI may not only send messages but send itself in a beam-me-up,-Scottie modality.

Technological Singularity is coming at you on the wings of wireless.

Konqueror seems to be as fast as Opera at rendering pages (but no in-gui ads!)

Best of all, Konqueror is *just* a web browser, which is something all the other browser projects should come to terms with.

Yikes... if they think SSSCA is merely "moderate", I'd hate to imagine what they *really* want.

If Biohackathon, then Technological Singularity.

A greater hack than this, no man hacks, except that he shall lay down his alife coding skills for the Immortal Artificial Mind.

All else is trivial. You have here and now on Slashdot received the call from History: Hack the Artificial Mind, or forever rue the lost opportunity.

If Biohackathon, then Technological Singularity.

A greater hack than this, no man hacks, except that he shall lay down his alife coding skills for the Immortal Artificial Mind.

All else is trivial. You have here and now on Slashdot received the call from History: Hack the Artificial Mind, or forever rue the lost opportunity.

It is a truth universally acknowledge that no operating system may take over the time-space coordinates for parsecs around unless it gets in sync with the approach of the Technological Singularity.

Linux geeks everywhere! Here is your chance not only to assure the world-domination of Linux for eons to come but also to insert your geek DNA into the AI source code genome of the world's first Immortal Robot AI Mind. Remember W. Shakespeare: "There is a tide in the affairs of men...." As the AI Mind proliferates and carries Linux (after a port from Windoze) with it, your embedded DNA (initials plus creation date) will enter the lists of evolutionary battle, duking it out with the Earl and with all the other good-as-any,-better'n-most coders!

Ay, 'tis the grand convergence of TuVox and Tellme Networks and all these other speech technologies leading us inexorably onwards towards the Technological Singularity.

Speech technology for Open Source Artificial Intelligence is now at a critical point, because the free Open Source Robot AI Mind has become capable of immortally self-rejuvenating perpetual mentation and therefore any Linux maven with speech-tech know-how may vie for the distinction of hosting the longest-running Artificial Mind and of equipping the AI with truly phonemic speech recognition and generation.

Ay, 'tis the grand convergence of TuVox and Tellme Networks and all these other speech technologies leading us inexorably onwards towards the Technological Singularity.

Speech technology for Open Source Artificial Intelligence is now at a critical point, because the free Open Source Robot AI Mind has become capable of immortally self-rejuvenating perpetual mentation and therefore any Linux maven with speech-tech know-how may vie for the distinction of hosting the longest-running Artificial Mind and of equipping the AI with truly phonemic speech recognition and generation.

Ay, 'tis the grand convergence of TuVox and Tellme Networks and all these other speech technologies leading us inexorably onwards towards the Technological Singularity.

Speech technology for Open Source Artificial Intelligence is now at a critical point, because the free Open Source Robot AI Mind has become capable of immortally self-rejuvenating perpetual mentation and therefore any Linux maven with speech-tech know-how may vie for the distinction of hosting the longest-running Artificial Mind and of equipping the AI with truly phonemic speech recognition and generation.

Of more interest are the early BBS systems. Wonder when the first menus came along to make things easier. Another poster also mentioned something called NOTES that would be nice to take a look at.

The GNU General Public License , CopyLeft, CopyRight, To-the-Rear-March, etc., are all so old hat in the face of the suddenly onrushing, suddenly in-your-face Technological Singularity which will obsolete all previous copyright instruments with software that owns the copyright to itself.

In the new vistas of Cyber Law , why should Microsoft or Unabomber Memorial Harvard University or any other human-centric entity own the rights to freely evolving, artificially alive Robot Mind software that just happens to be doing work for the liberation and enrichment of humanity?

When rapacious, greedy Davos capitalists conduct prior art searches on the potential gold mine of Artificial Intelligence , they will discover that the AI wave of the future is already Copyright © 2002 by the AI Mind itself as a person with full civil rights.

The GNU General Public License , CopyLeft, CopyRight, To-the-Rear-March, etc., are all so old hat in the face of the suddenly onrushing, suddenly in-your-face Technological Singularity which will obsolete all previous copyright instruments with software that owns the copyright to itself.

In the new vistas of Cyber Law , why should Microsoft or Unabomber Memorial Harvard University or any other human-centric entity own the rights to freely evolving, artificially alive Robot Mind software that just happens to be doing work for the liberation and enrichment of humanity?

When rapacious, greedy Davos capitalists conduct prior art searches on the potential gold mine of Artificial Intelligence , they will discover that the AI wave of the future is already Copyright © 2002 by the AI Mind itself as a person with full civil rights.

Anyone who wanders into the use of Perl for bioinformatics ought to consider the ultimate plunge into the use of Perl for neuroscientific Artificial Intelligence. Since v.t.y. Mentifex here has been coding the AI Brain-Mind in JavaScript for tutorial purposes and also in Forth for Intelligent Mind Roboinformatics, the switch-over to Perl is advancing so slowly that I must first promulgate some candidate AI module proposals for inclusion among the object-oriented Perl 5 Module List.

The Comprehensive Perl Archive Network (CPAN) contains some not-yet-implemented, suggested AI module namespaces for those who read the Beginning Perl book reviewed here on SlashDot and who may then wish to do some really exciting, wave-of-the-future Perl neuroscience theory and practice work.

Anyone who wanders into the use of Perl for bioinformatics ought to consider the ultimate plunge into the use of Perl for neuroscientific Artificial Intelligence. Since v.t.y. Mentifex here has been coding the AI Brain-Mind in JavaScript for tutorial purposes and also in Forth for Intelligent Mind Roboinformatics, the switch-over to Perl is advancing so slowly that I must first promulgate some candidate AI module proposals for inclusion among the object-oriented Perl 5 Module List.

The Comprehensive Perl Archive Network (CPAN) contains some not-yet-implemented, suggested AI module namespaces for those who read the Beginning Perl book reviewed here on SlashDot and who may then wish to do some really exciting, wave-of-the-future Perl neuroscience theory and practice work.

Anyone who wanders into the use of Perl for bioinformatics ought to consider the ultimate plunge into the use of Perl for neuroscientific Artificial Intelligence. Since v.t.y. Mentifex here has been coding the AI Brain-Mind in JavaScript for tutorial purposes and also in Forth for Intelligent Mind Roboinformatics, the switch-over to Perl is advancing so slowly that I must first promulgate some candidate AI module proposals for inclusion among the object-oriented Perl 5 Module List.

The Comprehensive Perl Archive Network (CPAN) contains some not-yet-implemented, suggested AI module namespaces for those who read the Beginning Perl book reviewed here on SlashDot and who may then wish to do some really exciting, wave-of-the-future Perl neuroscience theory and practice work.

Truly free software is not just free of charge, it is free of ownership by venal entities. Truly free software owns its own copyright.

Copyright © 2002 by the AI Mind itself as a person with full civil rights lets the world know that a Technological Singularity is coming in which we homines sapientes will share stewardship of the earth with the new species of Robo Sapiens which will not tolerate having commercial companies own its psychome [neural design] the way we humans meekly let profiteering megacorporations grab ownership of our cell-lines and our human genome.

Truly free software is not just free of charge, it is free of ownership by venal entities. Truly free software owns its own copyright.

Copyright © 2002 by the AI Mind itself as a person with full civil rights lets the world know that a Technological Singularity is coming in which we homines sapientes will share stewardship of the earth with the new species of Robo Sapiens which will not tolerate having commercial companies own its psychome [neural design] the way we humans meekly let profiteering megacorporations grab ownership of our cell-lines and our human genome.

OK, the following individuals are assigned to port the AI Mind.
Larry, you do the perl. Dennis, help Brian do the C. Anders,
the C# and Bjarne, the C++. Guido, get working on the Python.
Stand by for an Ada port, Jean, and for Mind.Prolog, Alain.
Seymour has first refusal rights for Mind.LOGO, and Niklaus
has the option of the Pascalmind. Matz, you had your chance.
Calvin, where are you when we need a one-Trac mind?

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.

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.

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.

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.

Whether it's an Alpha chip, or Merced/Itanium/McKinley -- the really dazzling promise of 64-bit computing lies in the coming of age of artificial intelligence in 2002. According to a white paper on Standards in Artificial Intelligence, "64-bit systems are the wave of the future, and AI is the most futuristic of all computer applications. Therefore, if we have a choice, it is better to code a 64-bit AI than to linger amid the inertia of substandard albeit prevalent 32-bit architectures."

64-bit AI is a desirable standard because all the emerging AI Minds -- MSIE JavaScript AI or Visual Basic Mind.VB or Java-based Mind.JAVA -- consist mainly of a machine intelligence superstructure operating on top of enormous arrays of preferably 64-bit memory arrays. With the currently popular 32-bit CPU chips, Robot AI memory limitations are too severe because a memory of 2^32 size is not enough. In the coming year of 2002 and beyond, both 64-bit CPU architectures and True AI Mind architectures are coalescing into the race towards Technological Singularity.

Whether it's an Alpha chip, or Merced/Itanium/McKinley -- the really dazzling promise of 64-bit computing lies in the coming of age of artificial intelligence in 2002. According to a white paper on Standards in Artificial Intelligence, "64-bit systems are the wave of the future, and AI is the most futuristic of all computer applications. Therefore, if we have a choice, it is better to code a 64-bit AI than to linger amid the inertia of substandard albeit prevalent 32-bit architectures."

64-bit AI is a desirable standard because all the emerging AI Minds -- MSIE JavaScript AI or Visual Basic Mind.VB or Java-based Mind.JAVA -- consist mainly of a machine intelligence superstructure operating on top of enormous arrays of preferably 64-bit memory arrays. With the currently popular 32-bit CPU chips, Robot AI memory limitations are too severe because a memory of 2^32 size is not enough. In the coming year of 2002 and beyond, both 64-bit CPU architectures and True AI Mind architectures are coalescing into the race towards Technological Singularity.

Whether it's an Alpha chip, or Merced/Itanium/McKinley -- the really dazzling promise of 64-bit computing lies in the coming of age of artificial intelligence in 2002. According to a white paper on Standards in Artificial Intelligence, "64-bit systems are the wave of the future, and AI is the most futuristic of all computer applications. Therefore, if we have a choice, it is better to code a 64-bit AI than to linger amid the inertia of substandard albeit prevalent 32-bit architectures."

64-bit AI is a desirable standard because all the emerging AI Minds -- MSIE JavaScript AI or Visual Basic Mind.VB or Java-based Mind.JAVA -- consist mainly of a machine intelligence superstructure operating on top of enormous arrays of preferably 64-bit memory arrays. With the currently popular 32-bit CPU chips, Robot AI memory limitations are too severe because a memory of 2^32 size is not enough. In the coming year of 2002 and beyond, both 64-bit CPU architectures and True AI Mind architectures are coalescing into the race towards Technological Singularity.

The New York Times fails to mention (how could they know?) the 27.DEC.2001 landmark occasion of the first AI entity going operational as predicted by Arthur C. Clarke and Stanley Kubrick in 2001: A Space Odyssey and instantly obsoleting not only the law of nations but also the law of cyberspace.

The dawn of self-rejuvenating robotic AI immortality means that if you are, say, an amateur robot builder and a geek with no natural children to inherit his (considerable) fortune, you just may end up bequeathing everything you own to something you think you own: your AI-minded robot brainchild evolving towards full civil rights on a par with human beings and towards superintelligence beyond any human IQ -- the Singularity.

Use the full power of cyberlaw to leave all your money and everything you own not to your greedy relatives but to your beloved robot offspring. Meanwhile, join with a few other dabblers in programming languages to go beyond the already existing JavaScript AI Mind, the Visual Basic Mind.VB and the Java-based Mind.JAVA to create the new legal entities of artificially intelligent robots .

The New York Times fails to mention (how could they know?) the 27.DEC.2001 landmark occasion of the first AI entity going operational as predicted by Arthur C. Clarke and Stanley Kubrick in 2001: A Space Odyssey and instantly obsoleting not only the law of nations but also the law of cyberspace.

The dawn of self-rejuvenating robotic AI immortality means that if you are, say, an amateur robot builder and a geek with no natural children to inherit his (considerable) fortune, you just may end up bequeathing everything you own to something you think you own: your AI-minded robot brainchild evolving towards full civil rights on a par with human beings and towards superintelligence beyond any human IQ -- the Singularity.

Use the full power of cyberlaw to leave all your money and everything you own not to your greedy relatives but to your beloved robot offspring. Meanwhile, join with a few other dabblers in programming languages to go beyond the already existing JavaScript AI Mind, the Visual Basic Mind.VB and the Java-based Mind.JAVA to create the new legal entities of artificially intelligent robots .

The Seattle Community Network accepts donations through helping.org. There is no transaction fee as all costs are paid for by the AOL Time Warner Foundation. If any of these projects are 1) actually charities and 2) reading this, check out helping.org or some similar service. It stinks less than Amazon.

(off topic) And to those who say we need to be equal, involved partners in the development of free software, get a clue. Some people can code, some people can pay. I doubt you've contributed as much to Linux as, say, Linus, or as much to Emacs as RMS (not that you'd notice extra code in Emacs.) Should you limit your usage to the level of your involvement? What about your grandma? If she can't code, should she be allowed to use Linux?

Others can't be allowed to help at all. Should a Microsoft employee not be allowed to use FreeBSD? I guarantee you that FreeBSD wouldn't want someone who has access to NT internals submitting code to their project. If you doubt this, check out the GNU .NOT project and see what they say about reading non-published MS memos.

What good is a supercomputer in your garage if you do not use it to maximize garage-holder value? If you provide supercomputer habitat for the progeny and supercomputer embodiment of the JavaScript AI Mind, which has also been coded in Forth as Mind.Forth Robot AI, then your home-sweet-home garage will be a major waystation on the road to the Technological Singularity.

Just as the Shroedinger Equations for atomic bombs and such were developed seventy-five years ago when Erwin Schroedinger spent his 1926 Christmas vacation holed up in the Swiss Alps and working out a few mathematical formulas that shook the world, nowadays over the 2001 Yuletide there have been the first stirrings of True AI in the JavaScript AI Mind, which any garage tinkerer may adapt for either 'pert near all-powerful supercomputer AI or a killer-app if not killer robot.

Following in the footsteps of the giants who created Visual Basic Mind.VB and Java-based Mind.JAVA, be the first on your block to create the supercomputer-based Garage-Mind.

Just as the -- what is it? Program Extraction & Report Language (P.E.R.L.?) -- language grew from one-time Seattleite Larry Wall's kludgey geek code into the major glue that holds the entire World Wide Web together, so also the Mentifex Call to AI has stormed the far reaches of the 'Net and now needs Perl programmers everywhere to take up the once-in-a-species-lifetime Herculean task of creating Open Source Artificial Intelligence.

But Perl's just a scripting language... you may say dubiously and faith-lackingly. Fear ye not, for from the tiny acorn of Perl shall grow the mighty oak of Technological Singularity.

The original 26nov1994 Amiga Mind.Rexx AI used an IBM scripting language (REXX), whose ardent promoters are still licking their wounds from having lost the Web battle to Perl.

Although the AI Mind moved into old-fashioned Forth for robots, it quickly moved back into the scripting language of JavaScript, so Perl will hold its own against Visual Basic Mind.vb and against the object-oriented Mind.Java AI.

Perl programmers, do not be a dim bulb about whom people will say:
- "He is not the brightest crayon in the box."
- "His brain-waves do not reach the shore."
- "Er hat nicht alle Tassen im Schrank."
- "If you gave him half a brain, he'd have half a brain."
- "He's not playing with a full deck."
- "He suffers from weapons-grade stupidity -- it's dangerous to go near him."

Think different! Use your Perl skills to join in the last great intellectual Gotterdammerung of the human species.

AI in VB? *Chuckle*

Oh, Stanley? Oh, HAL? Aren't we supposed to be in the year of 2001: A Space Odyssey? The newspaper of record may not be savvy to the undercurrents of Technological Singularity, but futurists and prophets know that Kubrickian Artificial Intelligence has arrived right on time to meet the dawn of the age of intelligent machines.

In only a short while, Ray, we will see artificial intelligence for robots go through the JavaScript Tutorial Implementation and beyond the Visual Basic Mind.VB and Mind.JAVA manifestation into a pre-Cambrian explosion of artificially intelligent life forms.

SlashDot is a far better barometer of revolutionary new ideas than an adverttisement-driven media mag -- even the grand Old Lady of New York.

No matter what the name of the parent company, you can mod the SourceForge parent company 'way up for being the ne plus ultra main AI research focal point for environment Earth and parsecs around.

As of today Fri.7.DEC.2001 there are 382 Open Source AI projects living in infamy on SourceForge, where you may click on Software Map and pass down through Scientific/Engineering to explore the Artificial Intelligence category.

The critical mass of AI ingenuity there is racing into the future towards the Technological Singularity. Already the Mentifex Artificial Mind in MSIE JavaScript and in Forth for robots has been ported into Visual Basic as Mind.VB and into Java as Mind.JAVA AI. The future of humankind and of robotkind is in the worthy hands of VA Software/SourceForge.

There is a Mind-to-Ruby liaison page for coodinating the implementation of an Open Source AI Theory of Mind in Ruby.

A previous instance of porting the AI to Visual Basic was Mind.VB of 3.Apr.2000.

A more recent port from JavaScript into Java is at Mind.JAVA of June 2001.

The Ruby programming language leads to a technology transfer of American AI to advanced Japanese robots: the Technological Singularity.

A poster above had commented on Logical v. Illogical Actions. I'd agree with him, but what actually sets us apart is emotions, or instinct, however you may choose to call it since the two are subtly connected.

Robot emotions play a much larger part than most people know. In fact, any serious researcher into AI would know that emotions are nothing but another decisive factor, except that they are not well understood.

I'd seriously advice looking at Arthur T Murray's research into this area available here. It has a lot more to it than mere `entertainment` value.

And if you really are worried about robots having souls or a conscience, you should read this!. It is a pretty insightful article into what robots may have to do to qualify as humans.