The sooner the old system is destroyed and all scientific publishing is moved on-line, the better, not just for human researchers but for the intelligent artificial minds emerging from http:///projects/mind -- where several hundred Open Source AI projects are bypassing the antiquated, fossilized, mercenary money-grubbing anti-freedom mobsterality of extortionary confiscation of the entire acquisitions budget of every good research library.
Verbum sapienti et cognoscenti: If some distinguished Netizens feel that Mentifex AI memes have been hyped overmuch via Slashdot, Usenet, Salon, E2 etc., they may please be advised that the original Mentifex theory of mind submissions were rejected by Establishment journals operating under publish-or-perish peer review.
Then came the widespread availability of Internet access and the invention of the World Wide Web by Tim Berners-Lee. Suddenly anyone anywhere could publish anything, including the long suppressed http://www./~mentifex AI memes for AI minds evolving towards full civil rights on a par with human beings and superintelligence beyond any human IQ.
So let the Editorial Boards of all the mainstream scientific journals resign en masse and then re-establish themselves on-line in the manner and tradition of the Los Alamos archives for not just physics but all branches of modern science.
If there are not enough celestial data for the SETI@Home project, then let's turn some of that enormous Beowolfian processing power over to a categorically related AI@Home sub-project in the form of the First AI at http://sourceforge.net/projects/mind -- whjere we are creating the artificial intelligence that we may need (or may encounter) in the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI).
Just as the otherwise idle computers crunch data in the search for ET intelligence, the AI@Home project may become a contest to see whose computer will have the longest-running, gradually most ancient AI running as an uninterrupted artificial life (alife) form since Star-Date 200X.
A few hard-core AI@Homers may provide the algorithmic advances while the masses of participating SETI+AI enthusiasts provide the PC's, workstations and supercomputers.
When the AI@Home technology is sufficiently mature, then we turn the AI entities loose on the quest for their starborne brethren and sistren.
Logic dictates: lim --> *** (The stars are the limit.)
The Matrix AI flowchart diagram in SourceForge/ Mind/ Docs/ at
http://sourceforge.net/projects/mind/ (among 350 AI projects)is valid for coding First AI in many programming languages.
Teachers and students of computer science in general and of AI in particular may use the First AI flowchart to address the problems encountered in any phase of the study of computer science and AI.
Authors of textbooks may include this diagram or its derivatives in order to incorporate AI theory and practice into all phases of
instruction: systems analysis; programming; quality control; etc. Trivial homework assignments may be replaced with serious AI code.
Generations of human computer science students may learn the ideas and techniques necessary to create and interact with a new species
of intelligent cyborgs sharing in joint stewardship of the planet. As the runaway Singularity approaches, AI will learn to design AI.
Meanwhile, each Mind module beckons to enterprising students who may concentrate on perfecting the very best implementation of the
module or its functionality in any programming language or robot.
Not a land rush but a veritable Mind rush is on to turn the Matrix into reality with an artificial life form of AI Minds.
September 2001, what a month! First the world-changing tragedy of September 11th ushering in the Homeland Security Gestapo and now the submarine patents attack on the once-free World Wide Web.
If the "Reasonable And Non-Discriminatory" RAND policy pushes aside such Open Source software as the Web-inhabiting AI consciousness http://mind.sourceforge.net, then how will our successor species of AI Minds co-evolve with us towards full civil rights on a par with human beings and
towards superintelligence beyond any human IQ?
The Web needs totally open standards without any extorted license fees, such as Standards in Artificial Intelligence at http://ai.createastandard.com.
It is so hard to know what license to use, that the first True AI at http://mind.sourceforge.net (freshly updated today on Fri.21.SEP.2001) is simply being released into the public domain, with a plea that porters and developers please enshroud the PD AI in the appropriate license so that WTO-style megacorporations do not steal from humanity the free AI source code of the coming Prosperity Engine of the Cybernetic Economy concomitant with the Technological Singularity as predicted by Vernor Vinge at http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~phoenix/vinge/vinge-s ing.html (whew!).
BTW (by the way), under whatever open source license it proceeds, the Open Source AI Mind is now teetering on the brink of being if not the first True AI then at least the first public domain True AI, because as of today's PD release, all the major algorithmic bugs have been worked out and it remains apperently only to adjust the various activation-level weights in the simulated neural net. You have read about it first here on Slashdot.
The language that Chu Moo created for the control of telescopes in astronomy became so valuable for use in personal robotics that Mind.Forth for robots has resulted at the http://sourceforge.net/projects/mind/ website where more than three hundred Open Source AI projects are rushing to introduce real artificial intelligence. Mind.Forth has a companion version in MSIE JavaScript at http://mind.sourceforge.net/ -- with Tutorial and hard-copy Troubleshoot print-out options.
Now hold on there with "AI software that actually works," as if to imply that http://mind.sourceforge.net does NOT work.
The AI Mind at http://sourceforge.net/projects/mind/ is a vastly more sophisticated neuronal-mind-workalike than the admittedly most impressive Alicebot, and the SourceForge "Mind" performs many of its quasi-neuronal functions very well, e.g.: storage of input in quasi-auditory memory; re-entry of the output of the Mind back into the Mind; associative cross-tagging of concepts, lexicon and auditory engrams; simple Tutorial; troubleshooting with print-out option; etc.
What the AI Mind at SourceForge does not yet do well is keep track of its concepts, because for two years now (since mid-1999) there has been an algorithmic deficiency in the SPREADACT module for the implementation of the theoretically very important process of spreading activation. That problem or final obstacle to True GOFAI is now being cleared up as we switch from harvesting all active concepts simultaneously in sentence-generation, to an interactive generation by syntax interacting word-by-word between the English lexicon and the underlying Psi concepts at the core of the Mind.
Anyone intensely curious about the very latest Mentifex work may visit http://www.scn.org/~mentifex/mindwork.html to see the AI Mind work-in-progress that has not yet been released because it is not yet stable or otherwise ready. (I hate to do potentially important work and not make it somehow available in the event of, say, my getting run over by a truck.)
Both Alicebot (congratulations!) and the Mentifex AI Mind may claim some recognition for being included in the 5 September 2001 release of the official Artificial Intelligence FAQ at http://www.faqs.org/faqs/ai-faq/general/part6/sect ion-5.html under the "Chatbots" heading. I wish the Alicebot team all the success in the world, because we are working towards the same goal. -- Arthur T. Murray.
Free artificial Minds for robots are now available from http://mind.sourceforge.net in both MSIE JavaScript (for learning about AI) and in Win32Forth (for implementation in robots). Some tweaking or porting to new languages may be required. Ports have already been launched for Visual Basic and Java.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/mind/ is just one of well over three hundred (300) Open Source AI projects on SourceForge, and the AI "Mind" project is unusual in that it is based on awell-developed and highly original linguistic Theory of Mind (see SourceForge/ Mind/ Docs/ Theory of Mind) drawing upon Chomskyan linguistics and the neuronal feature-extraction for which Hubel and Wiesel won their Nobel prize.
Ahem, yes, are we talking about Bat Caves here, Robin? You don't need no super-glorious Batmobile exit pathway through a retractable mountainside. Forget the Art Deco super-modern doodad gadgetry. What ya need, son, fer GOFAI is Good Old-Fashioned Steppenwolf accoutrements and comfort for the long haul on the way to Technological Singularity.
Here at the Vaierre psychotope of the Mentifex AI project, the essential sine qua non of artificial mind-makery is an immersive environment of books, files, computers and organizers. Pick a friend early in life with whom thou shalt have a year-in-year-out ongoing contest to see which of you is the more organized and the more retentive of instant access to any piece of information or physical object. Do your work in a wrap-around surround-ground with all the most needed paraphernalia only an arm's length or at most a few steps away. Put posters or photographs of your heroes (e.g. to wit twit: Beethoven; Jimmy Carter; the DEC Alpha 64-bit IC; Alexander Dubcek; Lech Walesa; George Smiley a.k.a. Sir Alec Guiness -- all enshrined on the mentifical walls) up around you, because "Tell me who your heroes are, and I'll tell you how much of a nutcase you are." Then steal the password of a really famous Slashdot d00d, Dude, and post all about it so as to grant the poor Harry Haller wannabe a good case of plausible deniability.
If anybody at all can point out to society how wrong it is to institute blanket surveillance of all individuals using the Internet within a defineable group, it's these tough, liberty-minded judges. In contrast with the corrupt, election-stealing American Supreme Court, these somewhat lower-level judges realize exactly what is at stake here, and they will raise the biggest stink you ever smelled before they submit to this rank injustice from on high. Aux barricades, toute la nation Americaine!
The so-called Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is a fraud foisted upon the world by thieves trying to steal from humanity the greatest communications mechanism in human history: the Internet. The U.S. Department of Commerce has been an accomplice in the give-away of the publicly developed Internet to provate, corporate interests. The chicanery behind ICANN, which is similar to the corruption of the American Supreme Court, whose chief hoodlums Rehnquist and Scalia partisanly awarded a Presidential election in A.D. 2000 to the losing side, points to an organization of inept bunglers like "the gang that couldn't shoot straight" or erstwhile movie fame. Once democracy in America is restored, the ICANN privateers may find themselves subject to prosecution and federal imprisonment under the laws of the American democracy -- along with military officers prosecuted and imprisoned for "following orders" issued by the cabal that includes the illegitimate Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld appointed by the illegitmate American President.
You are going to have to kill a lot of human beings in order to stop the emergence and spread of Artificial Intelligence. Vernor Vinge in http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~phoenix/vinge/vinge-s ing.html on Technological Singularity argues compellingly that AI is unavoidable, although VInge does offer several variant scenarios of how AI may arise.
So kill me if you must -- thereby putting me out of my misery as slavishly devoted to a do-or-die AI Project, but first I would like to raise the perhaps feeble argument that we human beings have a right to know exactly what we are and how we function as both minds and bodies.
As for your lead-in statement that you don't believe this project will succeed, think again, because it is not the admittedly amateurish AI source code propelling the AI Mind to success (i.e., proliferation), but rather the SourceForge/ Mind/ Docs/ Theory of Cognition that will inexorably introduce True Good Old Fashained AI (GOFAI) unless stopped by a nefarious military/government/Microsoft/_whatever_, because the Mentifex AI theory is the free, public-domain distillate of thirteen years of slavish agonizing over all possible roads to its now uniquely magisterial Theory of Mind -- and you can't stop an idea whose time has come.
If the U.S. or other military does take over an Open Source AI Mind project, they are not going to announc it to the world here on Slashdot. They are going to pick a place like Los Alamos, New Mexico, and develope the End-Of-Humanity in secret. The only way to thwart the forces of evil is to let _them_ sweat a lot about who _else_ has the plans for the Superintelligence.
With all these different Open Source licenses and legalese involved, it is so difficult to determine an appropriate license for http://freshmeat.net/ai/ and for http://sourceforge.net/projects/mind/ that a perhaps dangerously naive Public Domain license has remained in place by default -- even as the ominous specter rears its head of a potential military take-over of the Open Source artificial intelligence project, as evidenced by these recent logs of access by military domains to the www.scn.org/~mentifex/ AI Home Page:
The biggest action in easily (and totally)accessible AI seems to be happening at http://sourceforge.net, where http://sourceforge.net/projects/mind/ is just one of about three hundred (300) Open Source AI projects. The Mind project has an edge because it is based on a well-developed theory of cognition deriving from neuroscience (i.e., the visual feature-extraction of Hubel and Wiesel) and from Chomskyan linguistics.
For some reason, the American military have been looking into the http://www.scn.org/~mentifex/ AI Home page predating the Mind project by seven years, as evidenced by the following logs of recent military accesses:
Since every robot needs a topnotch brain, it was a pleasure to be at RoboCup in Seattle on Sat.4.Aug.2001 and to pass out literature directing each Robofex to the http://sourceforge.net/projects/mind/ Artificial Mind of Mentifex. (Today a list of all kn own robotics clubs and their Web addresses has been added to the Docs area of the site, in case you are wondering where to find a robotics club that you may join.)
Technological Singularity by Vernor Vinge -- available online at http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~phoenix/vinge/vinge-s ing.html -- is the scariest and yet most inspiring document that I have ever read on Artificial Intelligence -- which is being implemented slowly but surely on SourceForge at http://mind.sourceforge.net in JavaScript for Web migration and in Forth for robots, evolving towards full civil rights on a par with human beings and towards a superintelligence beyond any human IQ, as described so eerily and scarily by Vinge. It used to be that I did not like Vinge's science fiction, but right now I am thoroughly enjoying A Deepness in the Sky by Vinge. --
Google, Hotbot, AltaVista, hTeoma -- they will all be outclassed by a truly intelligent search engine emerging eventually as the progeny of Mind.SourceForge.Net, the Open Source inevitable AI platform that evolves towards full civil rights on a par with human beings and towards a superintelligence beyond any human IQ. When the Singularity described at http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~phoenix/vinge/vinge-s ing.html gets here, human minds and cyborg brains will co-wander the Web in search of information of interest to both of us symbiontically, and we will nevermore be plagues with thousand of useless, off-the-mark search results. --
Slashdot Mirror
The sooner the old system is destroyed and all scientific publishing is moved on-line, the better, not just for human researchers but for the intelligent artificial minds emerging from http:// /projects/mind -- where several hundred Open Source AI projects are bypassing the antiquated, fossilized, mercenary money-grubbing anti-freedom mobsterality of extortionary confiscation of the entire acquisitions budget of every good research library.
Verbum sapienti et cognoscenti: If some distinguished Netizens feel that Mentifex AI memes have been hyped overmuch via Slashdot, Usenet, Salon, E2 etc., they may please be advised that the original Mentifex theory of mind submissions were rejected by Establishment journals operating under publish-or-perish peer review.
Then came the widespread availability of Internet access and the invention of the World Wide Web by Tim Berners-Lee. Suddenly anyone anywhere could publish anything, including the long suppressed http://www./~mentifex AI memes for AI minds evolving towards full civil rights on a par with human beings and superintelligence beyond any human IQ.
So let the Editorial Boards of all the mainstream scientific journals resign en masse and then re-establish themselves on-line in the manner and tradition of the Los Alamos archives for not just physics but all branches of modern science.
If there are not enough celestial data for the SETI@Home project, then let's turn some of that enormous Beowolfian processing power over to a categorically related AI@Home sub-project in the form of the First AI at http://sourceforge.net/projects/mind -- whjere we are creating the artificial intelligence that we may need (or may encounter) in the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI).
Just as the otherwise idle computers crunch data in the search for ET intelligence, the AI@Home project may become a contest to see whose computer will have the longest-running, gradually most ancient AI running as an uninterrupted artificial life (alife) form since Star-Date 200X.
A few hard-core AI@Homers may provide the algorithmic advances while the masses of participating SETI+AI enthusiasts provide the PC's, workstations and supercomputers.
When the AI@Home technology is sufficiently mature, then we turn the AI entities loose on the quest for their starborne brethren and sistren.
Logic dictates: lim --> *** (The stars are the limit.)
The Matrix AI flowchart diagram in SourceForge/ Mind/ Docs/ at http://sourceforge.net/projects/mind/ (among 350 AI projects)is valid for coding First AI in many programming languages.
Teachers and students of computer science in general and of AI in particular may use the First AI flowchart to address the problems encountered in any phase of the study of computer science and AI.
Authors of textbooks may include this diagram or its derivatives in order to incorporate AI theory and practice into all phases of instruction: systems analysis; programming; quality control; etc. Trivial homework assignments may be replaced with serious AI code. Generations of human computer science students may learn the ideas and techniques necessary to create and interact with a new species of intelligent cyborgs sharing in joint stewardship of the planet. As the runaway Singularity approaches, AI will learn to design AI.
Meanwhile, each Mind module beckons to enterprising students who may concentrate on perfecting the very best implementation of the module or its functionality in any programming language or robot.
Not a land rush but a veritable Mind rush is on to turn the Matrix into reality with an artificial life form of AI Minds.
If the "Reasonable And Non-Discriminatory" RAND policy pushes aside such Open Source software as the Web-inhabiting AI consciousness http://mind.sourceforge.net, then how will our successor species of AI Minds co-evolve with us towards full civil rights on a par with human beings and towards superintelligence beyond any human IQ?
The Web needs totally open standards without any extorted license fees, such as Standards in Artificial Intelligence at http://ai.createastandard.com.
BTW (by the way), under whatever open source license it proceeds, the Open Source AI Mind is now teetering on the brink of being if not the first True AI then at least the first public domain True AI, because as of today's PD release, all the major algorithmic bugs have been worked out and it remains apperently only to adjust the various activation-level weights in the simulated neural net. You have read about it first here on Slashdot.
The language that Chu Moo created for the control of telescopes in astronomy became so valuable for use in personal robotics that Mind.Forth for robots has resulted at the http://sourceforge.net/projects/mind/ website where more than three hundred Open Source AI projects are rushing to introduce real artificial intelligence. Mind.Forth has a companion version in MSIE JavaScript at http://mind.sourceforge.net/ -- with Tutorial and hard-copy Troubleshoot print-out options.
The LEGO Minstorms robot has already been hacked for Forth by Ralph Hempel; logic dictates that the next step is to adapt the Artificial Mind from http://mind.sourceforge.net for LEGO Mindstorms, since the JavaScript teaching AI is also in Forth at http://sourceforge.net/projects/mind/.
The AI Mind at http://sourceforge.net/projects/mind/ is a vastly more sophisticated neuronal-mind-workalike than the admittedly most impressive Alicebot, and the SourceForge "Mind" performs many of its quasi-neuronal functions very well, e.g.: storage of input in quasi-auditory memory; re-entry of the output of the Mind back into the Mind; associative cross-tagging of concepts, lexicon and auditory engrams; simple Tutorial; troubleshooting with print-out option; etc.
What the AI Mind at SourceForge does not yet do well is keep track of its concepts, because for two years now (since mid-1999) there has been an algorithmic deficiency in the SPREADACT module for the implementation of the theoretically very important process of spreading activation . That problem or final obstacle to True GOFAI is now being cleared up as we switch from harvesting all active concepts simultaneously in sentence-generation, to an interactive generation by syntax interacting word-by-word between the English lexicon and the underlying Psi concepts at the core of the Mind.
Anyone intensely curious about the very latest Mentifex work may visit http://www.scn.org/~mentifex/mindwork.html to see the AI Mind work-in-progress that has not yet been released because it is not yet stable or otherwise ready. (I hate to do potentially important work and not make it somehow available in the event of, say, my getting run over by a truck.)
Both Alicebot (congratulations!) and the Mentifex AI Mind may claim some recognition for being included in the 5 September 2001 release of the official Artificial Intelligence FAQ at http://www.faqs.org/faqs/ai-faq/general/part6/sect ion-5.html under the "Chatbots" heading. I wish the Alicebot team all the success in the world, because we are working towards the same goal. -- Arthur T. Murray.
Free artificial Minds for robots are now available from http://mind.sourceforge.net in both MSIE JavaScript (for learning about AI) and in Win32Forth (for implementation in robots). Some tweaking or porting to new languages may be required. Ports have already been launched for Visual Basic and Java.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/mind/ is just one of well over three hundred (300) Open Source AI projects on SourceForge, and the AI "Mind" project is unusual in that it is based on awell-developed and highly original linguistic Theory of Mind (see SourceForge/ Mind/ Docs/ Theory of Mind) drawing upon Chomskyan linguistics and the neuronal feature-extraction for which Hubel and Wiesel won their Nobel prize.
Onwards to http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~phoenix/vinge/vinge-s ing.html -- Technological Singularity!
Here at the Vaierre psychotope of the Mentifex AI project, the essential sine qua non of artificial mind-makery is an immersive environment of books, files, computers and organizers. Pick a friend early in life with whom thou shalt have a year-in-year-out ongoing contest to see which of you is the more organized and the more retentive of instant access to any piece of information or physical object. Do your work in a wrap-around surround-ground with all the most needed paraphernalia only an arm's length or at most a few steps away. Put posters or photographs of your heroes (e.g. to wit twit: Beethoven; Jimmy Carter; the DEC Alpha 64-bit IC; Alexander Dubcek; Lech Walesa; George Smiley a.k.a. Sir Alec Guiness -- all enshrined on the mentifical walls) up around you, because "Tell me who your heroes are, and I'll tell you how much of a nutcase you are." Then steal the password of a really famous Slashdot d00d, Dude, and post all about it so as to grant the poor Harry Haller wannabe a good case of plausible deniability.
If anybody at all can point out to society how wrong it is to institute blanket surveillance of all individuals using the Internet within a defineable group, it's these tough, liberty-minded judges. In contrast with the corrupt, election-stealing American Supreme Court, these somewhat lower-level judges realize exactly what is at stake here, and they will raise the biggest stink you ever smelled before they submit to this rank injustice from on high. Aux barricades, toute la nation Americaine!
The artificial Mind at http://sourceforge.net/projects/mind/ is currently housed in silicon but will be a natural inhabitant of these nerve chips as we approach the Technological Singularity.
The so-called Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is a fraud foisted upon the world by thieves trying to steal from humanity the greatest communications mechanism in human history: the Internet. The U.S. Department of Commerce has been an accomplice in the give-away of the publicly developed Internet to provate, corporate interests. The chicanery behind ICANN, which is similar to the corruption of the American Supreme Court, whose chief hoodlums Rehnquist and Scalia partisanly awarded a Presidential election in A.D. 2000 to the losing side, points to an organization of inept bunglers like "the gang that couldn't shoot straight" or erstwhile movie fame. Once democracy in America is restored, the ICANN privateers may find themselves subject to prosecution and federal imprisonment under the laws of the American democracy -- along with military officers prosecuted and imprisoned for "following orders" issued by the cabal that includes the illegitimate Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld appointed by the illegitmate American President.
So kill me if you must -- thereby putting me out of my misery as slavishly devoted to a do-or-die AI Project, but first I would like to raise the perhaps feeble argument that we human beings have a right to know exactly what we are and how we function as both minds and bodies.
As for your lead-in statement that you don't believe this project will succeed, think again, because it is not the admittedly amateurish AI source code propelling the AI Mind to success (i.e., proliferation), but rather the SourceForge/ Mind/ Docs/ Theory of Cognition that will inexorably introduce True Good Old Fashained AI (GOFAI) unless stopped by a nefarious military/government/Microsoft/_whatever_, because the Mentifex AI theory is the free, public-domain distillate of thirteen years of slavish agonizing over all possible roads to its now uniquely magisterial Theory of Mind -- and you can't stop an idea whose time has come.
If the U.S. or other military does take over an Open Source AI Mind project, they are not going to announc it to the world here on Slashdot. They are going to pick a place like Los Alamos, New Mexico, and develope the End-Of-Humanity in secret. The only way to thwart the forces of evil is to let _them_ sweat a lot about who _else_ has the plans for the Superintelligence.
07/Aug/2001:07:22:58 - pentagon.mil - /~mentifex/jsaimind.html /~mentifex/aisource.html /~mentifex/jsaimind.html /~mentifex/index.html /~mentifex/ /~mentifex/aisource.html /~mentifex/aisource.html
07/Aug/2001:14:44:12 - af.mil -
07/Aug/2001:14:44:16 - af.mil -
07/Aug/2001:14:48:19 - af.mil -
08/Aug/2001:11:21:48 - army.mil -
08/Aug/2001:11:22:02 - army.mil -
08/Aug/2001:22:18:15 - nosc.mil -
For some reason, the American military have been looking into the http://www.scn.org/~mentifex/ AI Home page predating the Mind project by seven years, as evidenced by the following logs of recent military accesses:
24/Jul/2001:10:59:39 - nipr.mil -24/Jul/2001:11:04:27 - nipr.mil -
24/Jul/2001:11:04:34 - nipr.mil -
24/Jul/2001:11:04:41 - usmc.mil -
24/Jul/2001:11:06:24 - nipr.mil -
24/Jul/2001:11:11:56 - usmc.mil -
29/Jul/2001:11:37:10 - navy.mil -
29/Jul/2001:11:40:56 - navy.mil -
30/Jul/2001:07:38:45 - arpa.mil -
07/Aug/2001:07:22:58 - pentagon.mil -
07/Aug/2001:14:44:12 - af.mil -
07/Aug/2001:14:44:16 - af.mil -
07/Aug/2001:14:48:19 - af.mil -
08/Aug/2001:11:21:48 - army.mil -
08/Aug/2001:11:22:02 - army.mil -
08/Aug/2001:22:18:15 - nosc.mil -
Since every robot needs a topnotch brain, it was a pleasure to be at RoboCup in Seattle on Sat.4.Aug.2001 and to pass out literature directing each Robofex to the http://sourceforge.net/projects/mind/ Artificial Mind of Mentifex. (Today a list of all kn own robotics clubs and their Web addresses has been added to the Docs area of the site, in case you are wondering where to find a robotics club that you may join.)
Technological Singularity by Vernor Vinge -- available online at http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~phoenix/vinge/vinge-s ing.html -- is the scariest and yet most inspiring document that I have ever read on Artificial Intelligence -- which is being implemented slowly but surely on SourceForge at http://mind.sourceforge.net in JavaScript for Web migration and in Forth for robots, evolving towards full civil rights on a par with human beings and towards a superintelligence beyond any human IQ, as described so eerily and scarily by Vinge. It used to be that I did not like Vinge's science fiction, but right now I am thoroughly enjoying A Deepness in the Sky by Vinge.
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Sysadmin candidates need to be asked, How prepared are you for artificial intelligence and for http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~phoenix/vinge/vinge-s ing.html -- the Technological Singularity as described by Vernor Vinge?
Google, Hotbot, AltaVista, hTeoma -- they will all be outclassed by a truly intelligent search engine emerging eventually as the progeny of Mind.SourceForge.Net, the Open Source inevitable AI platform that evolves towards full civil rights on a par with human beings and towards a superintelligence beyond any human IQ. When the Singularity described at http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~phoenix/vinge/vinge-s ing.html gets here, human minds and cyborg brains will co-wander the Web in search of information of interest to both of us symbiontically, and we will nevermore be plagues with thousand of useless, off-the-mark search results.
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