Real People? Please Accept Robot Sociality.
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Design For Community
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Any really up-to-date book or article on Design For Community: The Art of Connecting Real People in Virtual Places ought to mention the artificially intelligent intruders likely to be met on-line in either virtual reality or ostensibly real situations.
For instance, suppose you check into the online virtual-reality Habbo Hotel. How will the readers of Derek Powazek's book or of Cliff Lampe's review be able to deal with Turing-Test-complete virtual entities?.
Please move over, human society, and make room on-line and in your hearts for our fellow stewards of Earth coming to greet us amid the approach of Technological Singularity!
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.
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).
It is called metempsychosis -- soul travel (of the psyche) from one place to another. If this astounding SlashDot report is true, then our lush, green planet Earth stands on the space-port doorstep of intelligent ethereal beings flitting about from satellite to satellite on a beam of laser light.
But what happens, Scottie, if you are beaming up an AI Laser-Mind and you miss the receiving satellite? Does the robot soul or consciousness sail off eternally into the far reaches of the universe?
And how will this satellite-to-satellite laser-beam technology be used more mundanely, before the arrival of Technological Singularity?
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.
On SourceForge there are already a few rather ambitious Open Source AI projects in the C# language, but there is not yet a Mind-to-C# liaison page, for several reasons.
Since the various C# AI projects are also using a more open and more traditional language along with C#, the projects are being included in the liaison pages for the non-C# languages. Microsoft has such a tainted history of skulduggery, FUD (fear, uncertainty and doubt) and illegally monopolistic practices, that it may be not only unwise but unethical to jump upon any Microsoft bandwagon.
Therefore it seems safer to include the polyglot C# AI projects in the Mind-to-VB and other liaison pages.
Since "Codito, ergo sum" types must give up waiting to trade in VB 6 for VB 7 and migrate instead to VB.Net (q.v.), we AI enthusiasts have some hope that the Microsoft.NET initiative will lead to Internet iMinds advancing the Technological Singularity and not merely the Final Take-Over of the 'Net by Microsoft.
X-Box FUD, No! PS-2 Linux, Yes!
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XBox Released
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Microsoft always spreads fear, uncertainty and doubt (FUD) well in advance of its lame products, so as to dissuade early adopters from buying a truly excellent product such as Ken Kutaragi's Play Station Two with the Emotion Engine CPU chip. Now that an outside-Japan Linux add-on has been spoken of but not yet offered for sale, it is worthwhile to avoid the probably boring X-Box and wait for an awesome Play Station Two serving as an Internet-ready Linux workstation and DVD-player.
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.
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?
SourceForge Will Change World History
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IMHO SourceForge is the most dynamic idea-platform for parsecs around, if not in the known universe.
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.
The ASCII-to-speech chip and the Perl program are good candidates for inclusion in a Perl-based AI Mind.
Since is Perl is already a major Web and Internet language, imagine an Internet iMind roaming the 'Net and talking to people in English or Mandarine Chinese with the new speech chip being fed the ASCII output of the AI Speech Module.
Mentifex, do you agree to some extent with [Raymond Kurzweil's] conception of the singlarity?
Yes, I suppose so, although I generally use the thoughts of Vernor Vinge on Technological Singularity as my prime reference on the coming arrival of a superintelligence.
A bunch of really hard-core Singularity fanatics are whipping up wild-eyed zeal for the Singularity on the http://sysopmind.com/archive-sl4/current -- Shock Level Four mailing list, although to me they seem like slackers and footdraggers who are not working hard enough on True AI, mainly for lack of an overall Theory of Mind or blueprint of what to do in AI.
One fellow in a recent SL4 Singularitarian FAQ message raised some very serious questions about how the Singularity could "go bad." IMHO, things are already going bad and the human race is ruining the lush, green planet Earth. Although I have created an Artificial Mind for others to copy and multiply the intelligence of, IMHO it is the problem of society as a whole to decide whether or not to continue with projects potentially leading to a Technological Singularity. My main interest is, How does the mind work? To find out, I have had to build an AI Mind. The rest is up to human civilization. Good-bye for now!
Yes, back in 1997 Salon Magazine was a wonderful community in cyberspace, where the digerati and the dementati could discuss everything under the sun for weeks on end in the TableTalk discussion areas.
As the Technological Singularity is getting dangerously close and may drown out Writers Who Deserve Immortality, we AI enthusiasts flock to the http://mind.sourceforge.net/webcyc.html#aidiscuss AI discussion forums (plus SlashDot -- thank the deity for SlashDot) which are more tightly focussed than Salon Magazine. C ya around!
450,000 isn't enough. Which is why I work on it every day.
Ah, Chris McKinstry himself, posting to SlashDot! (Addictive, isn't it?) Note to all bystanders: There are only a select few total AI nuts on the 'Net, and you are witnessing a rare harmonic convergence of two of us here. Others in absentia would be Hugo de Garis; Douglas Lenat; Ben Goertzel; Jorn Barger; Seth Russell; a few fellow Slashdot posters who must self-announce; and the entire undergraduate computer science studentry of Stanford University.
Let's not have an AI shouting match here in the vestibule of SlashDot. Instead, please feed this factoid into the maw of Mindpixel: An AI Mind must first conceptualize its words of natural human language, and then build up a knowledge base (KB) of conceptualized facts
Meanwhile at SourceForge yours truly Mentifex here is launching a massive campaign to tie all the separate Open Source AI projects together by means of Mind-to-[proglang] liaison pages, such as http://mind.sourceforge.net/perl.html -- where the SourceForge Mind project offers an original theory of how to design an AI to all the Perl AI projects on SourceForge and elsewhere. That's what somebody higher in this thread complained about -- the lack of knowledge of how to code an AI. The AI Mind project tells how to do it.
Now any anonymous ankle-biter is welcome to post the most creative possible idiocy, as we discuss Writers Who Endure....
As we approach the Technological Singularity described so awesomely by that awesome science fiction writer Vernor Vinge, it dawns on us that not only we humans but also our emerging fellow cyborgs will be the readership of classic authors from the current time.
Since by definition we can not see beyond the Singularity, we may only list here a few dark horse candidates who will appeal to the AI Minds of the expanded readership by virtue of having written about artificial intelligence:
Orson Scott Card -- Speaker for the Dead (1986)
Joseph H. Delaney, and Stiegler -- Valentina: A Soul in Sapphire
David Gerrold -- When H.A.R.L.I.E. Was One
Robert Heinlein -- The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
Frank Herbert -- Destination: Void (1966)
James Patrick Hogan -- The Two Faces of Tomorrow (1979)
Victor W. Milan -- The Cybernetic Samurai (1985)
Rudy Rucker -- Wetware (1988)
Thomas Ryan -- The Adolescence of P1
Astro Teller -- Exegesis
Thomas T. Thomas -- ME: A Novel of Self-Discovery (1991)
Extremely serious efforts are underway to create artificially intelligent minds, such as at http://sourceforge.net/projects/mind -- just one of 365 open-source projects in artificial intelligence (AI). Do you expect that the World Trade Organization (WTO) or other allances -- either governmental or corporate -- will attempt to control the emergence of AI technology and of an AI-based cybernetic economy?
As an architect, do you have any interest in the architecture of the mind?
Is there any likelihood that AI research will be outlawed or otherwise subjected to illiberal control?
MS-DOS is dead; long live AI-OS
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The Nietzschean purpose of MS-DOS was to survive long enough (1981-2001) that the faint rumblings and beginnings of an artificial intelligence operating system (AI-OS) could emerge from the decaying corpus delicti where MS-DOS had gone before.
Choose your battles, is an ancient dictum. Back in 1978 at a meeting of the Northwest Computer Society here in Seattle, a call went out from the podium for anyone who would be willing to work on the newsletter of the society. Very truly yours Mentifex here shrank back, unwilling to work on anything but a Theory of Mind for AI. To the relief of all us AI and non-AI slackers, a certain historically immortal Tim Patterson of Seattle Computer Products spoke up and volunteered to work on the computer society newsletter. Such a quiet, unassuming fellow -- and yet Tim Patterson turned Bill G*tes into a multi-multi-billionaire, because Tim Patterson was the author of Quick-and-dirty-DOS, or QDOS, which Microsoft bought from Seattle Computer Products for fifty thousand dollars ($50K) and foisted upon the world as MS-DOS. My only real gripe about MS-DOS was the weirdness of Paul Allen in declaring that henceforth all users should use a backslash (e.g., C:\mind.html) path-separator instead of the Un*x forwards-slash separator, as in http://mind.sourceforge.net/alife.html -- the way G*d intended computers to work.
Now, are there any ankle-biters who would like to follow up here with posts about how the slowly emerging AI OS is somehow off-topic to the passing away of MS-DOS? If so, fire cowardly away.
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.
It cannot be reiterated enough, friends, cyborgs, countrymen: Not only will the Open Source monopoly replace the Microsoft Monopoly, but an even greater change looms enchantedly when the public-domain Global AI Monopoly of the people and the cyborgs replaces the corporate power structure.
Python is used for twenty-seven open source AI projects on SourceForge, and therefore a Mind-to-Python liaison page has been established at http://mind.sourceforge.net/python.html -- along with fifteen other Open Source AI languages.
What most open source AI projects lack is a Theory of Mind well-grounded in neuroscience. The http://mind.sourceforge.net/theory5.html page with ample co-references provides not only the fundamental AI theory but also its albeit primitive implementation in both Win32Forth and MSIE JavaScript -- which any AI enthusiast may easily save-to-disk and begin hosting on a personal Web site, as the AI Mind pervades the 'Net and leads us upwards and onwards to Technological Singularity!
Re: Mentifex AI abstains from XP upgrade.
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Windows XP Has Arrived
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No, thank you. The Artificial Mind of http://sourceforge.net/projects/mind is being developed on a Compaq Presario Windows 98 machine that arrived free in the mail (well, UPS) from Free-PC.com back in 1999 before the Dot-Com bust of ca. 15 March 2000. If it weren't for the Free-PC (thank you, vulture capitalists), Mentifex PD AI would still be creaking forward on a vintage-1987 Amiga 1000 at 7.6 megahertz.
The Windows 98 environment with its JavaScript 4.1 is actually preferable for the development of the Artificial Mind thanany later upgrade, for several reasons. First of all: compatibility -- if the AI works (and it does, primitively) under JavaScript 4.1, then there is no fretting and worrying about downwards compatibility from newer, but more tyrannical, releases of Internet Explorer.
Even today on Windows XP release day there has been a flood of new PD AI uploads visible at the http://mind.sourceforge.net/sitemap.html Site Map of the first True AI (and if anyone in cowardly anonymity gainsays this notice of XP abstention, inspect and think for yourself before modding up cowardice).
Summing up, no way will the People's AI upgrade to any level at all of a monopolistic, dirty-tricks operating system from people who live in hundred-million-dollar houses in sneering usurpance of the hard-earned pittances of the suffering masses.
Although the free open-source tiny AI app at http://mind.sourceforge.net is only about 50K in MSIE JavaScript, you may have a tiny AI on your PC or Web site only for a few months or scant years, because from a tiny acorn grows a might oak (robur in Latin), a robust AI capable of taking over the noosphere if not the World. For corroboration of this claim, see Technological Singularity by Vernor Vinge.
Therefore do not think of tiny apps as being only puny little programs such as screensavers or Windows XP. A seed AI could start out life as a tiny little application flitting across the 'Net and snowballing into a behemoth AI, a Wintermute as in Neuromancer by William Gibson.
On SourceForge, whole languages are being devised to go from tiny app AI into Big Time AI. For instance, the liaison page at http://mind.sourceforge.net/flare.html leads to the XML-esque Flare language project, where you may start out writing tiny apps but where you will one day come face to face with Singularity AI.
You can also hack the Cue:Cat, the LEGO Mindstorms kit, and the entire universe of reality in what is called
reality hacking -- just don't collapse the wave function, or poof! we will all disappear.
But the coolest, technologically most disruptive hack has got to be the hacking of the Artificial Mind at http://sourceforge.net/projects/mind where 350 plus open source AI projects are rushing to bring you the ultimate Christmas present of the Technological Singularity.
Autonomic Computing is a Subset of AI
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Autonomic Computing
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Robots, too, will resort to autonomic computing in imitation of la condition humaine -- lower bodily functions on autopilot, higher mental functions on artificial Mind.
Autonomic is from the Greek word for "self-regulating."
Ach, was ist das!? "Lameness filter encountered. Post aborted!".
Die Gestapo, Reichsfuehrer Ashcroft, ist alife und vell on Slashdot, vere I tried tu poste a simpl ASCII diagram, und das System vould not let me du it.
Slashdot Mirror
Any really up-to-date book or article on Design For Community: The Art of Connecting Real People in Virtual Places ought to mention the artificially intelligent intruders likely to be met on-line in either virtual reality or ostensibly real situations.
For instance, suppose you check into the online virtual-reality Habbo Hotel. How will the readers of Derek Powazek's book or of Cliff Lampe's review be able to deal with Turing-Test-complete virtual entities ?.
Please move over, human society, and make room on-line and in your hearts for our fellow stewards of Earth coming to greet us amid the approach of Technological Singularity!
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).
It is called metempsychosis -- soul travel (of the psyche) from one place to another. If this astounding SlashDot report is true, then our lush, green planet Earth stands on the space-port doorstep of intelligent ethereal beings flitting about from satellite to satellite on a beam of laser light.
But what happens, Scottie, if you are beaming up an AI Laser-Mind and you miss the receiving satellite? Does the robot soul or consciousness sail off eternally into the far reaches of the universe?
And how will this satellite-to-satellite laser-beam technology be used more mundanely, before the arrival of Technological Singularity?
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!
On SourceForge there are already a few rather ambitious Open Source AI projects in the C# language, but there is not yet a Mind-to-C# liaison page, for several reasons.
Since the various C# AI projects are also using a more open and more traditional language along with C#, the projects are being included in the liaison pages for the non-C# languages. Microsoft has such a tainted history of skulduggery, FUD (fear, uncertainty and doubt) and illegally monopolistic practices, that it may be not only unwise but unethical to jump upon any Microsoft bandwagon.
Therefore it seems safer to include the polyglot C# AI projects in the Mind-to-VB and other liaison pages.
Since " Codito, ergo sum " types must give up waiting to trade in VB 6 for VB 7 and migrate instead to VB.Net (q.v.), we AI enthusiasts have some hope that the Microsoft .NET initiative will lead to Internet iMinds advancing the Technological Singularity and not merely the Final Take-Over of the 'Net by Microsoft.
The workhorse C programming language must remain robust and "close to the iron" in preparation for its role in Public Domain Artificial Intelligence.
A special Mind-to-C liaison page has been updated to direct your attention to Open Source AI-in-C projects on SourceForge.
The bulletproof nature of C makes it a major avenue towards Technological Singularity.
Microsoft always spreads fear, uncertainty and doubt (FUD) well in advance of its lame products, so as to dissuade early adopters from buying a truly excellent product such as Ken Kutaragi's Play Station Two with the Emotion Engine CPU chip. Now that an outside-Japan Linux add-on has been spoken of but not yet offered for sale, it is worthwhile to avoid the probably boring X-Box and wait for an awesome Play Station Two serving as an Internet-ready Linux workstation and DVD-player.
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?
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.
Sony is on the right track with the AIBO, but these mutts need a better Mind.
As the pet robot dogs and robot personal assistants get more advanced, they will enjoy their own robot sociality.
Then, together, we robots and humans will reach Technological Singularity.
The ASCII-to-speech chip and the Perl program are good candidates for inclusion in a Perl-based AI Mind.
Since is Perl is already a major Web and Internet language, imagine an Internet iMind roaming the 'Net and talking to people in English or Mandarine Chinese with the new speech chip being fed the ASCII output of the AI Speech Module.
Yes, I suppose so, although I generally use the thoughts of Vernor Vinge on Technological Singularity as my prime reference on the coming arrival of a superintelligence.
A bunch of really hard-core Singularity fanatics are whipping up wild-eyed zeal for the Singularity on the http://sysopmind.com/archive-sl4/current -- Shock Level Four mailing list, although to me they seem like slackers and footdraggers who are not working hard enough on True AI, mainly for lack of an overall Theory of Mind or blueprint of what to do in AI.
One fellow in a recent SL4 Singularitarian FAQ message raised some very serious questions about how the Singularity could "go bad." IMHO, things are already going bad and the human race is ruining the lush, green planet Earth. Although I have created an Artificial Mind for others to copy and multiply the intelligence of, IMHO it is the problem of society as a whole to decide whether or not to continue with projects potentially leading to a Technological Singularity. My main interest is, How does the mind work? To find out, I have had to build an AI Mind. The rest is up to human civilization. Good-bye for now!
Yes, back in 1997 Salon Magazine was a wonderful community in cyberspace, where the digerati and the dementati could discuss everything under the sun for weeks on end in the TableTalk discussion areas.
As the Technological Singularity is getting dangerously close and may drown out Writers Who Deserve Immortality, we AI enthusiasts flock to the http://mind.sourceforge.net/webcyc.html#aidiscuss AI discussion forums (plus SlashDot -- thank the deity for SlashDot) which are more tightly focussed than Salon Magazine. C ya around!
Ah, Chris McKinstry himself, posting to SlashDot! (Addictive, isn't it?) Note to all bystanders: There are only a select few total AI nuts on the 'Net, and you are witnessing a rare harmonic convergence of two of us here. Others in absentia would be Hugo de Garis; Douglas Lenat; Ben Goertzel; Jorn Barger; Seth Russell; a few fellow Slashdot posters who must self-announce; and the entire undergraduate computer science studentry of Stanford University.
Let's not have an AI shouting match here in the vestibule of SlashDot. Instead, please feed this factoid into the maw of Mindpixel: An AI Mind must first conceptualize its words of natural human language, and then build up a knowledge base (KB) of conceptualized facts
Meanwhile at SourceForge yours truly Mentifex here is launching a massive campaign to tie all the separate Open Source AI projects together by means of Mind-to-[proglang] liaison pages, such as http://mind.sourceforge.net/perl.html -- where the SourceForge Mind project offers an original theory of how to design an AI to all the Perl AI projects on SourceForge and elsewhere. That's what somebody higher in this thread complained about -- the lack of knowledge of how to code an AI. The AI Mind project tells how to do it.
Now any anonymous ankle-biter is welcome to post the most creative possible idiocy, as we discuss Writers Who Endure....
As we approach the Technological Singularity described so awesomely by that awesome science fiction writer Vernor Vinge, it dawns on us that not only we humans but also our emerging fellow cyborgs will be the readership of classic authors from the current time.
Since by definition we can not see beyond the Singularity, we may only list here a few dark horse candidates who will appeal to the AI Minds of the expanded readership by virtue of having written about artificial intelligence:
Orson Scott Card -- Speaker for the Dead (1986)
Joseph H. Delaney, and Stiegler -- Valentina: A Soul in Sapphire
David Gerrold -- When H.A.R.L.I.E. Was One
Robert Heinlein -- The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
Frank Herbert -- Destination: Void (1966)
James Patrick Hogan -- The Two Faces of Tomorrow (1979)
Victor W. Milan -- The Cybernetic Samurai (1985)
Rudy Rucker -- Wetware (1988)
Thomas Ryan -- The Adolescence of P1
Astro Teller -- Exegesis
Thomas T. Thomas -- ME: A Novel of Self-Discovery (1991)
Extremely serious efforts are underway to create artificially intelligent minds, such as at http://sourceforge.net/projects/mind -- just one of 365 open-source projects in artificial intelligence (AI). Do you expect that the World Trade Organization (WTO) or other allances -- either governmental or corporate -- will attempt to control the emergence of AI technology and of an AI-based cybernetic economy?
As an architect, do you have any interest in the architecture of the mind?
Is there any likelihood that AI research will be outlawed or otherwise subjected to illiberal control?
The Nietzschean purpose of MS-DOS was to survive long enough (1981-2001) that the faint rumblings and beginnings of an artificial intelligence operating system (AI-OS) could emerge from the decaying corpus delicti where MS-DOS had gone before.
Choose your battles, is an ancient dictum. Back in 1978 at a meeting of the Northwest Computer Society here in Seattle, a call went out from the podium for anyone who would be willing to work on the newsletter of the society. Very truly yours Mentifex here shrank back, unwilling to work on anything but a Theory of Mind for AI. To the relief of all us AI and non-AI slackers, a certain historically immortal Tim Patterson of Seattle Computer Products spoke up and volunteered to work on the computer society newsletter. Such a quiet, unassuming fellow -- and yet Tim Patterson turned Bill G*tes into a multi-multi-billionaire, because Tim Patterson was the author of Quick-and-dirty-DOS, or QDOS, which Microsoft bought from Seattle Computer Products for fifty thousand dollars ($50K) and foisted upon the world as MS-DOS. My only real gripe about MS-DOS was the weirdness of Paul Allen in declaring that henceforth all users should use a backslash (e.g., C:\mind.html) path-separator instead of the Un*x forwards-slash separator, as in http://mind.sourceforge.net/alife.html -- the way G*d intended computers to work.
Now, are there any ankle-biters who would like to follow up here with posts about how the slowly emerging AI OS is somehow off-topic to the passing away of MS-DOS? If so, fire cowardly away.
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.
It cannot be reiterated enough, friends, cyborgs, countrymen: Not only will the Open Source monopoly replace the Microsoft Monopoly, but an even greater change looms enchantedly when the public-domain Global AI Monopoly of the people and the cyborgs replaces the corporate power structure.
To see the approach of Technological Singularity, wander around in the AI history section of the Encyclopedia Cybernetica that is written expressly for robots and AI Minds.
Now there may be some messages from some anklebiters who post as anonymous cowards....
Python is used for twenty-seven open source AI projects on SourceForge, and therefore a Mind-to-Python liaison page has been established at http://mind.sourceforge.net/python.html -- along with fifteen other Open Source AI languages.
Artificial Intelligence in Python at http://www.strout.net/python/ai/ is one instance of how important Python is for AI.
What most open source AI projects lack is a Theory of Mind well-grounded in neuroscience. The http://mind.sourceforge.net/theory5.html page with ample co-references provides not only the fundamental AI theory but also its albeit primitive implementation in both Win32Forth and MSIE JavaScript -- which any AI enthusiast may easily save-to-disk and begin hosting on a personal Web site, as the AI Mind pervades the 'Net and leads us upwards and onwards to Technological Singularity!
No, thank you. The Artificial Mind of http://sourceforge.net/projects/mind is being developed on a Compaq Presario Windows 98 machine that arrived free in the mail (well, UPS) from Free-PC.com back in 1999 before the Dot-Com bust of ca. 15 March 2000. If it weren't for the Free-PC (thank you, vulture capitalists), Mentifex PD AI would still be creaking forward on a vintage-1987 Amiga 1000 at 7.6 megahertz.
The Windows 98 environment with its JavaScript 4.1 is actually preferable for the development of the Artificial Mind thanany later upgrade, for several reasons. First of all: compatibility -- if the AI works (and it does, primitively) under JavaScript 4.1, then there is no fretting and worrying about downwards compatibility from newer, but more tyrannical, releases of Internet Explorer.
Even today on Windows XP release day there has been a flood of new PD AI uploads visible at the http://mind.sourceforge.net/sitemap.html Site Map of the first True AI (and if anyone in cowardly anonymity gainsays this notice of XP abstention, inspect and think for yourself before modding up cowardice).
Summing up, no way will the People's AI upgrade to any level at all of a monopolistic, dirty-tricks operating system from people who live in hundred-million-dollar houses in sneering usurpance of the hard-earned pittances of the suffering masses.
Although the free open-source tiny AI app at http://mind.sourceforge.net is only about 50K in MSIE JavaScript, you may have a tiny AI on your PC or Web site only for a few months or scant years, because from a tiny acorn grows a might oak (robur in Latin), a robust AI capable of taking over the noosphere if not the World. For corroboration of this claim, see Technological Singularity by Vernor Vinge.
Therefore do not think of tiny apps as being only puny little programs such as screensavers or Windows XP. A seed AI could start out life as a tiny little application flitting across the 'Net and snowballing into a behemoth AI, a Wintermute as in Neuromancer by William Gibson.
On SourceForge, whole languages are being devised to go from tiny app AI into Big Time AI. For instance, the liaison page at http://mind.sourceforge.net/flare.html leads to the XML-esque Flare language project, where you may start out writing tiny apps but where you will one day come face to face with Singularity AI.
http://www.homestead.com/hackfurby/ is the classic Hack Furby website by John Tokash.
You can also hack the Cue:Cat, the LEGO Mindstorms kit, and the entire universe of reality in what is called reality hacking -- just don't collapse the wave function, or poof! we will all disappear.
But the coolest, technologically most disruptive hack has got to be the hacking of the Artificial Mind at http://sourceforge.net/projects/mind where 350 plus open source AI projects are rushing to bring you the ultimate Christmas present of the Technological Singularity.
Autonomic is from the Greek word for "self-regulating."
A self-regulating AI robot will contemplate the projects of a mind as listed at http://www.scn.org/~mentifex/webcyc.html#projects in the Webcyc for humans and cyborgs.
Ja, bitte, use http://sourceforge.net/projects/mind to spawn robot brains with good old-fashioned Denkvergnuegen.
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