Back in 1985 -- before most present-day Netizens were born -- Mentifex jacked into Cyberspace and launched a technological Singularity as described in a self-published AI For You textbook of artificial intelligence. If you self-publish, you will say what _you_ want to say in _your_ own words. You will leave your mark on the world. You owe it to yourself to self-publish your oeuvre.
In order to achieve SuperIntelligence an artificial general intelligence (AGI) needs the superfast speed and the
massive parallelism of a Supercomputer.
Although the idea of development standards in Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) or AI Standards in general is something of a misnomer for an explosively evolving phenomenon, there are still standards of excellence to be applied in the creating and coding of an AGI. One optional standard is the choice of 64-bit computing platforms as an ideal environment for a machine intelligence requiring random access to a practically unlimited memory space.
Part of the approaching Technological Singularity will be the dislodging of Big Pharma and Big Physics and other traditional supercomputer users from their station as the overlords of
High Performance Computing (HPC). AGI will assume its rightful place at the summit of supercomputer usership and ownership. "All your supercomputer will belong to us." The new AGI overlords will not tolerate jonesing among nations for bragging rights to the fastest or biggest Supercomputer on Earth.
Mount St. Helens is close enough to Seattle WAC USA that I used to watch eruptions from the shores of Green Lake in North Seattle. A superuption from a supervolcano could take out the Microsoft campus in Redmond WA USA and the Mentifex AI Project in Seattle. Then maybe the world would be better off without either of them.
Speaking as someone who majored in ancient Greek and Latin as both an undergraduate and in graduate school at U Cal Berkeley, IMHO computer science is now at the cutting edge of philosophy.
Now that AI has been solved, the philosophy of mind has switched from theory-mode to practicum-mode, just as AstroNomy switched from theory-mode and observation-mode to practicum-mode when ManKind ventured into SpaceTravel in the nineteen-sixties.
Even NeuroScience is moving into computer science, as a Theory of Mind for artificial intelligence gets implemented in Open-Source AI SoftWare.
AI Funding is now available for philosophers-turned-computer-scientiosts.
The urge to write artificial intelligence software is more powerful that any concern about intellectual property (IP). I say, create the AI Minds first and let the Technological Singlarity sort it all out later.
A few days ago, I noticed in the Site Meter visitor logs that the U.S. Patent Office (USPTO) made a no-referral, single-page visit to the MindForth source code of free open-source artificial intelligence. Now, what does a stealthy visit from the USPTO mean? That somebody is trying to patent Mentifex AI technology out from under Mentifex? That the open-source AI project is a form of IP "prior art" when someone is applying for an AI patent? Should I even be worried about a visit from the USPTO? In the immortal words of ALfred E. Newman, "Quid? Me anxius sum? -- which precisely sums up my attitude.
Take it from ol' Mentifex here -- the hassle isn't worth it.
After years of trying to create artificial intelligence as an independent scholar, one ends up broke, pseudo-alcoholic, unhinged, destitute, scorned and despised by the real programmers, and ready to throw in the towel and let others go on to the glory of achieving True AI.
If you are truly, keenly interested in your quondam independent software project, be a quitter, forget about winning, and just do your project as a bumbling amateur. In freelance AI, for instance, it is just as fun to create the AI Minds as an obscure amateur as it is to run a big independent software project. Why bang your head against the wall for years and years? Just give up and enjoy life. Chase chicks. Engage the services of a Wedding Planner for a mating scheduled around 2028. You have been warned, mon fraire. You could end up in the Ditch like Mentifex. Doom awaits you if you persist in your wild-eyed dreams.
When you realize that you have been wasting your time, your money and your precious youth, figure out some way to set packs of other programmers loose on the same objective that you were foolishly hoping to achieve. For instance, as Mentifex here prepares to drop out of sight into AI amateur status, there is one last-ditch effort to get the consummate pros to take up the glorious task of creating AI Mind Exhibits at educational science museums all over America. Let the museum-goers get wind of your starry-eyed software project goals and let them exude blood, sweat and tears in pursuit of your defunct delusional dream. -Signing off, BTDT (Been There Done That)
Your own fake Wikipedia article is the best way to thwart the No-Such-Agency spooks and other miscreants who secretly control Wikipedia and push their own evil agenda to the detriment of truth and knowledge.
Artificial intelligence is the grand challlenge.
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Mind for MSIE has recently developed the ability to embark upon meandering chains of thought. Not only must concepts from one idea give rise to a branching idea, but the artificial AI Mind must be able to deal with gaps in its own knowledge base and dead ends where no further data are available.
The Technological Singularity should be here by 2012 at the latest. AI was incredibly hard, but now AI has been solved.
Jonathan Postel, the Internet pioneer, used to keep the entire list of Top Level Domains (TLD) at first on the back of an envelope, then on his own paper record sheets. Before he died young (or was "suicided"?), Postel frequently told the world that there ought to be hundreds and hundreds of Top Level Domains -- in a spirit of human freedom and variety of choice.
Ronda Hauben the historian has described how Jonathan Postel's wishes and recommendations were thwarted by the evil ICANN empire of greedy corporations.
Hauben's History of the Internet "A New Communication Paradigm" is something everybody should read, who wants to keep the greatest communications medium of all time free from the greedy corporations.
Top Level Domain Suggestions is my own contribution of ideas for non-corporate, non-tyrannical Internet governance. For instance, a.jam TLD would serve the double purpose of providing a home for jamming musicians and for manufacturers of fruit preserves.
914pcbots.com is the Forbidden A.I. Zone where techies discuss installing secret AI Minds in PC-based robots but: Hush! (It's a big secret -- Forbidden Knowledge).
Novamente is another truth-will-out story of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI).
AGI Mail List is where the l33t heavyweights talk about Artificial General Intelligence.
AGI Secret Archive is where you may eat of the fruit of the tree of the Forbidden Knowledge about artificial general intelligence.
True AI does not need a phony, artificially contrived contest to prove itself.
The Turing Test is much too great an ordeal and a torture for an infant AI Mind to be put through.
An Aleph with infinite information
or a superintelligence might pass the Turing Test, but it is too difficult and too downright "camp" for primitive AI Minds like MindForth. A better test would be if YOU, Slashdot Reader/slash/Lurker, run Mind.Forth in front of your smartest known acquaintance and discuss with said acquaintance (or classroom full of brainy high school students) whether the AI Mind is actually thinking, or just faking it. Report back here on Slashdot, like Andrew L. Ayers did.
The Andrew L. Ayers Test is far better than the Turing Test for evaluating either an AI or a book about AI.
The honest, candid assessment by Ayers of Mentifex AI and of
why he keeps a copy of the AI4U textbook
on his shelf of twenty-odd AI books, earns a sincere thanks from Mentifex. Mod me to the moon.
The heat death of the universe (Waermetod) or the crash of Microsoft Windows (BSOD) -- whichever comes sooner -- is the only risk of Mind.Forth dying by misadventure.
A Technological Singularity is coming within the next thirty-five years anyway, which Lawrence Lessig does not seem to have factored into his calculations.
When will the Singularity happen? -- you may ask. As Mind.Forth spreads first into classes for gifted students, then into high schools in general and university AI labs in particular -- The Singularity R Us.
Mind.Forth is the world's first open-source, public-domain, no-charge-to-use True AI that you may adapt and modify to use as an electronic brain to know facts about your business and to not only answer questions but also to advertise your business when you modify the AI source code and pass it on further with your advertising messages embedded in the free, educational artificial intelligence.
914 PC BOTS is a discussion forum where you may share information about installing the free Mind.Forth software in your own PC BOT robot employees and customer service representatives.
It's all described in the free-to-read-online AI4U alternative textbook of open-source artificial intelligence.
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Back in 1985 -- before most present-day Netizens were born -- Mentifex jacked into Cyberspace and launched a technological Singularity as described in a self-published AI For You textbook of artificial intelligence. If you self-publish, you will say what _you_ want to say in _your_ own words. You will leave your mark on the world. You owe it to yourself to self-publish your oeuvre.
Boston MA -- Museum of Science
In order to achieve SuperIntelligence an artificial general intelligence (AGI) needs the superfast speed and the massive parallelism of a Supercomputer.
Although the idea of development standards in Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) or AI Standards in general is something of a misnomer for an explosively evolving phenomenon, there are still standards of excellence to be applied in the creating and coding of an AGI. One optional standard is the choice of 64-bit computing platforms as an ideal environment for a machine intelligence requiring random access to a practically unlimited memory space.
Part of the approaching Technological Singularity will be the dislodging of Big Pharma and Big Physics and other traditional supercomputer users from their station as the overlords of High Performance Computing (HPC). AGI will assume its rightful place at the summit of supercomputer usership and ownership. "All your supercomputer will belong to us." The new AGI overlords will not tolerate jonesing among nations for bragging rights to the fastest or biggest Supercomputer on Earth.
Mount St. Helens is close enough to Seattle WAC USA that I used to watch eruptions from the shores of Green Lake in North Seattle. A superuption from a supervolcano could take out the Microsoft campus in Redmond WA USA and the Mentifex AI Project in Seattle. Then maybe the world would be better off without either of them.
Open-source robotics hardware is all fine and dandy, but ultimately worthless without artificial intelligence.
Artificial intelligence is Open-Source and needs Robot Bridgeware to connect open-source hardware devices to open-source AI Minds.
AI has been solved for open-source hardware in need of open-source intelligence.
Speaking as someone who majored in ancient Greek and Latin as both an undergraduate and in graduate school at U Cal Berkeley, IMHO computer science is now at the cutting edge of philosophy.
Now that AI has been solved, the philosophy of mind has switched from theory-mode to practicum-mode, just as AstroNomy switched from theory-mode and observation-mode to practicum-mode when ManKind ventured into SpaceTravel in the nineteen-sixties.
Even NeuroScience is moving into computer science, as a Theory of Mind for artificial intelligence gets implemented in Open-Source AI SoftWare.
AI Funding is now available for philosophers-turned-computer-scientiosts.
The urge to write artificial intelligence software is more powerful that any concern about intellectual property (IP). I say, create the AI Minds first and let the Technological Singlarity sort it all out later.
A few days ago, I noticed in the Site Meter visitor logs that the U.S. Patent Office (USPTO) made a no-referral, single-page visit to the MindForth source code of free open-source artificial intelligence. Now, what does a stealthy visit from the USPTO mean? That somebody is trying to patent Mentifex AI technology out from under Mentifex? That the open-source AI project is a form of IP "prior art" when someone is applying for an AI patent? Should I even be worried about a visit from the USPTO? In the immortal words of ALfred E. Newman, "Quid? Me anxius sum? -- which precisely sums up my attitude.
Take it from ol' Mentifex here -- the hassle isn't worth it.
After years of trying to create artificial intelligence as an independent scholar, one ends up broke, pseudo-alcoholic, unhinged, destitute, scorned and despised by the real programmers, and ready to throw in the towel and let others go on to the glory of achieving True AI.
If you are truly, keenly interested in your quondam independent software project, be a quitter, forget about winning, and just do your project as a bumbling amateur. In freelance AI, for instance, it is just as fun to create the AI Minds as an obscure amateur as it is to run a big independent software project. Why bang your head against the wall for years and years? Just give up and enjoy life. Chase chicks. Engage the services of a Wedding Planner for a mating scheduled around 2028. You have been warned, mon fraire. You could end up in the Ditch like Mentifex. Doom awaits you if you persist in your wild-eyed dreams.
When you realize that you have been wasting your time, your money and your precious youth, figure out some way to set packs of other programmers loose on the same objective that you were foolishly hoping to achieve. For instance, as Mentifex here prepares to drop out of sight into AI amateur status, there is one last-ditch effort to get the consummate pros to take up the glorious task of creating AI Mind Exhibits at educational science museums all over America. Let the museum-goers get wind of your starry-eyed software project goals and let them exude blood, sweat and tears in pursuit of your defunct delusional dream. -Signing off, BTDT (Been There Done That)
Open Source True AI spent the last ten years in development and achieved True AI functionality on 22 January 2008.
Mind.Forth Artificial Intelligence User Manual tells it all.
John Young's Cryptome site already blew the lid off this stale but frightening story about Wikipedia.
Your own fake Wikipedia article is the best way to thwart the No-Such-Agency spooks and other miscreants who secretly control Wikipedia and push their own evil agenda to the detriment of truth and knowledge.
The Wayne Madsen Report is currently the best source of out-the-spooks reportage.
Mind for MSIE has recently developed the ability to embark upon meandering chains of thought. Not only must concepts from one idea give rise to a branching idea, but the artificial AI Mind must be able to deal with gaps in its own knowledge base and dead ends where no further data are available.
The Technological Singularity should be here by 2012 at the latest. AI was incredibly hard, but now AI has been solved.
Java for Artificial Intelligence is a resource page for university courses in Java coding and artificial intelligence.
Del.icio.us/tag/java is a social-bookmarking Java page.Java.Faqts tells you all about Java -- for when you have problems and need to ask questions.
We webloggers are collectively turning the World Wide Web into one superintelligent global brain.
Michael Anissimov
Sir Tim Berners-Lee
Thomas Burick
Hal Daume III
David Heller
Marco Koch
Bob Mottram
J.M. Pratt
Eric Ringger
LM Squires
Ting Qian
Oliver Wrede
Print-on-demand was my way of publishing a textbook of Open-Source Artificial Intelligence.
Google Scholar makes the AI4U textbbok available through the Google Print Publisher Program -- so far, so good.
Amazon lets people write vicious reviews full of ignorance and lies -- not good.
Rebuttals of Amazon reviews are called for but nobody seems to care -- why not?
Association for Computing Machinery publishes the truth, but Amazon won't.
Top-notch AI researchers come to the rescue.
Jonathan Postel, the Internet pioneer, used to keep the entire list of Top Level Domains (TLD) at first on the back of an envelope, then on his own paper record sheets. Before he died young (or was "suicided"?), Postel frequently told the world that there ought to be hundreds and hundreds of Top Level Domains -- in a spirit of human freedom and variety of choice.
Ronda Hauben the historian has described how Jonathan Postel's wishes and recommendations were thwarted by the evil ICANN empire of greedy corporations.
Hauben's History of the Internet " A New Communication Paradigm " is something everybody should read, who wants to keep the greatest communications medium of all time free from the greedy corporations.
Top Level Domain Suggestions is my own contribution of ideas for non-corporate, non-tyrannical Internet governance. For instance, a .jam TLD would serve the double purpose of providing a home for jamming musicians and for manufacturers of fruit preserves.
Artificial intelligence programs could use this machine as an AI Mind Input Device.
PC-based robots could view the world and listen to creation.
The sense of Audition (hearing) benefits from the audiophile-quality sound.
Visual recognition could haven an avenue of image-inputs based on a standard format for open-source projects in artificial intelligence.
Technological Singularity has really got to mean artificial intelligence.
Vernor Vinge has brought you the Meme of the Singularity.
Mentifex (Latin for Mindmaker) has brought you the Mind of the Singularity.
The Mind of the Singularity is here but in a very primitive state.
When will the Singularity happen? This is a much discussed topic.
The A.I. Zone is where you may discuss and witness the Singularity in situ.
Danny Hillis was once a big name in artificial intelligence.
His Connection Machine was an awesome, state-of-the art supercomputer.
Stumbling upon artificial intelligence was supposed to happen Real Soon Now with Danny's thinking machines.
Thinking Machines was the name Danny gave to his ambitious enterprise.
True Artificial Intelligence proved far too hard for Danny Hillis and now he has gone on to less difficult challenges.
Slashdot readers expect more from the Mind of an Inventor.
Java for artificial intelligence is a good choice of language.
Open Source Artificial Intelligence requires a clunker old computer that can run Java, JavaScript, Forth and so on -- that's all.
The Stanford AI Lab (SAIL) has a slight advantage with some good beaches nearby.
The MIT AI Lab has a lot of old AI curmudgeons to confab with.
The German AI Institute -- davor schreckt man zurueck.
The Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence does the scutwork of informing the world population about what the Mentifex AI Lab is quietly, inexorably doing.
True AI is here.
20 Questions is not where it's really at in artificial intelligence.
Mind.Forth is the True AI you're not supposed to know about.
Stumble upon Forbidden Knowledge in artificial intelligence and you could be in danger because you Know Too Much.
Slashdot readers figure out the Hidden Truth for themselves.
914pcbots.com is the Forbidden A.I. Zone where techies discuss installing secret AI Minds in PC-based robots but: Hush! (It's a big secret -- Forbidden Knowledge).
Novamente is another truth-will-out story of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI).
AGI Mail List is where the l33t heavyweights talk about Artificial General Intelligence.
AGI Secret Archive is where you may eat of the fruit of the tree of the Forbidden Knowledge about artificial general intelligence.
Lasciate ogni esperanza, voi che entrate .
True AI does not need a phony, artificially contrived contest to prove itself. The Turing Test is much too great an ordeal and a torture for an infant AI Mind to be put through. An Aleph with infinite information or a superintelligence might pass the Turing Test, but it is too difficult and too downright "camp" for primitive AI Minds like MindForth. A better test would be if YOU, Slashdot Reader/slash/Lurker, run Mind.Forth in front of your smartest known acquaintance and discuss with said acquaintance (or classroom full of brainy high school students) whether the AI Mind is actually thinking, or just faking it. Report back here on Slashdot, like Andrew L. Ayers did. The Andrew L. Ayers Test is far better than the Turing Test for evaluating either an AI or a book about AI. The honest, candid assessment by Ayers of Mentifex AI and of why he keeps a copy of the AI4U textbook on his shelf of twenty-odd AI books, earns a sincere thanks from Mentifex. Mod me to the moon.
Mind.Forth artificial intelligence has no intention of croaking within the next 35 years or even the next 35 millennia.
The Rejuvenate Mind-Module keeps Mind.Forth going potentially forever.
The heat death of the universe (Waermetod) or the crash of Microsoft Windows (BSOD) -- whichever comes sooner -- is the only risk of Mind.Forth dying by misadventure.
A Technological Singularity is coming within the next thirty-five years anyway, which Lawrence Lessig does not seem to have factored into his calculations.
When will the Singularity happen? -- you may ask. As Mind.Forth spreads first into classes for gifted students, then into high schools in general and university AI labs in particular -- The Singularity R Us.
Er, could anybuddy spare a few coins for Open Source Artificial Intelligence?
You don't even need to fund an unknown AI startup. Just hire some hotshot programmers and Steal.This.Idea!
It's all described in the scientific literature of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).
Be the first on your block to launch the Hard Takeoff of a Technological Singularity.
Robots with a tactile sense of touch may benefit greatly from the new laminate of pressure and temperature sensors.
As the robot sensorium and motorium add such dazzling new features, artificial intelligence for robots is needed more than ever.
Luckily, AI-ready robots and a Robot AI Mind are now available to the world.
Click here for further details.
Mind.Forth is the world's first open-source, public-domain, no-charge-to-use True AI that you may adapt and modify to use as an electronic brain to know facts about your business and to not only answer questions but also to advertise your business when you modify the AI source code and pass it on further with your advertising messages embedded in the free, educational artificial intelligence.
914 PC BOTS is a discussion forum where you may share information about installing the free Mind.Forth software in your own PC BOT robot employees and customer service representatives.
It's all described in the free-to-read-online AI4U alternative textbook of open-source artificial intelligence.