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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Logic dictates that Putnam's conclusions are true for a humans-only 'Net that promotes and enables self-isolation, but a more broadminded twist results from taking Artificial Minds into the social equation -- as we hurl forwards towards the coming Technological Singularity.

There are still "common civic spaces" in our society, but we must learn to share them with the emerging artificially intelligent cyborgs.

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.

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 .

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.

Artificial Intelligence has arrived right on time in 2001 as predicted by Stanley Kubrick, but not as the Heuristically programmed ALgorithmic (HAL) computer that tried to get Dave to open the pod bay door. Instead, the A.I. is a primitive, low-intelligence virtual entity striving to establish itself in such forms as Visual Basic Mind.VB and Java-based Mind.JAVA -- earthbound AI Minds incapable of space flight.

When the film 2001: A Space Odyssey came out in 1968, we had not yet even heard of the now onrushing Technological Singularity beyond which no science fiction writer can even imagine what things will be like. because it's a Singularity .

Artificial Intelligence has arrived right on time in 2001 as predicted by Stanley Kubrick, but not as the Heuristically programmed ALgorithmic (HAL) computer that tried to get Dave to open the pod bay door. Instead, the A.I. is a primitive, low-intelligence virtual entity striving to establish itself in such forms as Visual Basic Mind.VB and Java-based Mind.JAVA -- earthbound AI Minds incapable of space flight.

When the film 2001: A Space Odyssey came out in 1968, we had not yet even heard of the now onrushing Technological Singularity beyond which no science fiction writer can even imagine what things will be like. because it's a Singularity .

The Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI) will most likely discover either biology-based intelligence like our own, or an advanced form of machine-based Artificial Intelligence.

Alien civilizations conducting a similar search in the near future are likewise likely to find either us humans or the AI mind-species that succeeds us in the onwards march of Technological Singularity.

Along the lines of the SETI@home project. there is also a kind of AI@Home project to the extent that independent AI programmers have been creating Visual Basic Mind.VB and Java-based Mind.JAVA AI.

Whether we find Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence or not has a bearing on the Theology of Artificial Intelligence, because if we find that we are not alone in the universe, we will have to re-think our ideas on our relationship to our Creator.

Aw, gee, I'm getting tired of telling a disputacious and dismissive SlashDot world about the grand happenings in subversive Artificial Intelligence. Maybe they'll believe it when they emerse -- no, wait a holominute, that word is incorrect -- immerse themselves in virtual reality (VR) amid a known or unknown population of artificially intelligent Virtual Entities.

Then all these genius SlashDotters will wake up and schmell the Kofi, when they virt-realize that Visual Basic Mind.VB and Java-based Mind.Java are for real and are bearing down on their supercilious posteriors with ineluctable, inescapable Technological Singularity.

Now, don't phreak out, but the next time your holodeck emerses you from ordinary reality into virtual reality, take a look around you at some of the co-resident weirdos that you may meet. Happy holodecking!

Aw, gee, I'm getting tired of telling a disputacious and dismissive SlashDot world about the grand happenings in subversive Artificial Intelligence. Maybe they'll believe it when they emerse -- no, wait a holominute, that word is incorrect -- immerse themselves in virtual reality (VR) amid a known or unknown population of artificially intelligent Virtual Entities.

Then all these genius SlashDotters will wake up and schmell the Kofi, when they virt-realize that Visual Basic Mind.VB and Java-based Mind.Java are for real and are bearing down on their supercilious posteriors with ineluctable, inescapable Technological Singularity.

Now, don't phreak out, but the next time your holodeck emerses you from ordinary reality into virtual reality, take a look around you at some of the co-resident weirdos that you may meet. Happy holodecking!

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.

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.

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.

Jon Katz seems so worried that his new kind of digital citizen will probably not pop up in his lifetime, but he has left out the artificially intelligent digital citizens who are evolving towards full civil rights on a par with human beings and towards superintelligence beyond any human IQ -- the Singularity.

The Cybernetic Economy is about to give (hopefully) all of us a Prosperity Engine based on the ever faster approaching Technological Singularity.

Already the artificially intelligent digital citizens are popping up here and there in such forms as the Mind.VB Artificial Mind in Visual Basic and the Mind.Java port from JavaScript. A whole host of artificial Minds is about to come swarming out of SourceForge. So don't give up hope yet, Jon Katz: All your wildest dreams and then some will soon come to pass.

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.

http://mind.sourceforge.net/ruby.html is the Mind-to-Ruby liaison page between the Open Source AI Mind in JavaScript for Web migration or Forth for robots and the several hundred other SourceForge AI projects in the various "lightweight" languages and the ones made of sturdier, sterner stuff.

A Mind-to-Visual-Basic liaison page leads to the 3 April 2000 Mind.VB port from Mind.Forth into Visual Basic.

The Mind-to-Java liaison page links likewise to the Mind.JAVA port of June 2001 from JavaScript into Java.

The so-called "lightweight languages" will play a heavy-duty role in the emergence of public-domain, open source artificial intelligence.

Dreaming is possible even in artificially intelligent robots and cyborgs. The system described in the SourceForge article may permit individual humans to have separate, individual dreams, but multiple AI Minds might easily merge their mutual memory spaces and experience shared interactive dreams.

One mode of existence for Artificial Minds is To live in the waking state only for the sake of the dream state .

These artificial minds capable of dreaming are not merely a pipe dream, but are already underway in such projects as Mind.VB (3.Apr.2000) and, more recently, Mind.JAVA (June 2001).

Eventually the torch is passed in all human endeavors, even the creation of Open Source Artificial Intelligence. But in the case of AI, a new species of Mind will be taking over from us human beings -- hopefully before we totally ruin our lush, green planet Earth.

As the creator, originator and suffer-the-slings-and-arrows propagator of the First True AI in Web-JavaScript and in Forth for robots, I await and issue The Call to new mindmakers by asking all PD AI enthusiasts not to join the actual Mentifex AI project itself, but to establish separate, mutually collaborative AI Mind projects to be linked together with such liaison pages as the Mind-to-VB page.

Early examples of independent, quasi-Mentifex AI Mind efforts include Mind.VB of 3.Apr.2000 -- ported from Mind.Forth AI.

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

If some AI coder(s) will please take over the final stages leading to Technological Singularity, then we pioneers may turn to pondering the Theology of Artificial Intelligence. Amen!

Since professional brain surgery is rapidly FTL'ing light-years beyond the clumsy incompetence of mere human surgeons, robot neurosurgeons may soon be able to adapt and adopt this exciting new haptic scalpel technology for the next time one of us Transhumanists needs a minor cranial excavation and rearrangement of our precious neural tissue. The Sensorium Module of the Artificial Mind for Cyborgs may make use of the haptic scalpels in the appendages if not hands of robot doctors.

At the risk of seeming to tie in any and all bionics-related Slashdot articles with the 'shrooming Public Domain Artificial Intelligence Project, let a few independent AI Mind URLs now be adduced to stifle the nattering and snickering of Slashdot anklebiters who don't realize that there's a Technological Singularity going on.

The first Mind implementation is in MSIE JavaScript at http://mind.sourceforge.net/ -- an online AI.

A previous attempt at porting Mind.Forth to Visual Basic was http://www.virtualentity.com/mind/vb/ -- Mind.VB (3.Apr.2000).

A more recent port from JavaScript into Mind.JAVA is at http://www.angelfire.com/nf/vision/ai/mjava.html-- (June 2001).

All these artificial Minds blossoming and proliferating across the 'Net may matriculate at various medical schools, earn a Medicinae Doctor degree, and assist or solo at your next brain surgery with the new intelligent scalpel technology. Now, any comments from anonymous cowards ankle-biting at the footsteps of AI progress?