MindForth Programming Journal (MFPJ) Wed.22.SEP.2010 -- Solving the Missing "seq"
Yesterday we solved the problem of the missing "seq" tags rather quickly, when we noticed that each time point with a missing "seq" was just outside the search-range of ten time-points as specified in the InStantiate mind-module. When we increased the search-range by one time-point, from ten to eleven as seen in the code below, the problem disappeared. lackseq @ 1 = IF \ if set one loop ago \ t @ 10 - t @ 4 - DO \ go back about ten engrams \ t @ 11 - t @ 4 - DO \ go further back; 21sep2010 t @ 12 - t @ 4 - DO \ go further back; 21sep2010 We added one more time-point to the search-range for the sake of safety. We realize that we may eventually need to declare something like a limitless search-range, which should serve quite well, since the search is abandoned after the first successful hit. 3 Wed.22.SEP.2010 -- Mother of all Singularities Yesterday's missing-seq bug was not showing up in the behavior of the AI, but its very presence was alarming and unsettling to us Singularitarian AI coders. Now we turn our relieved attention to the new bug du jour, the problem which we have already Web-published on 20 September 2010 by posting the following exchange. Human: you are software Robot: SOFTWARE ARE THE SOFTWARE The response of the robot AI is in violation of our long-standing mandate that the introduction of a previously unknown noun should cause the AI to ask a "WhatIs" question about the new concept. Apparently the conceptual activations are so out of whack that the WhatIs module is not being triggered by the input of the noun "software" above. We merely note this problem in passing on to a more serious problem, the fact that the word "SOFTWARE" is undergoing unwarranted neural inhibition during the clumsy AI response. We will ignore but not fail to notice the wrong be-verb form. As we troubleshoot the weak but world's most powerful AI Mind, we have eleven windows open on our screen so that we may call up a wide range of helpful files while we are coding off-line -- not currently connected to the 'Net. The first window is our current MFPJ page, which we are composing by typing into the second window. Window seven is a text file of our penultimate AI source code, in which we may examine the whole MindForth AI program as it stood in its most recent release to the Web, while we alternate among running Win32Forth in a twelfth window for MS-DOS, viewing the output in a thirteenth window, and now and then editing the newest source code in a fourteenth window. La forza del destino has placed on our non-Atlantic shoulders the task of coding the mother of all Singularities with extreme caution and with due diligence. Until it turns out that the Daughters of the American Revolution have been coding in secret a colossal Forbin-esque AI that will swamp all our puny efforts, we operate on the assumption that the future of AI evolution will not be in safe hands until so many AI labs are at work that we can no longer single-handedly ruin the AI emergence by taking a wrong turn into a blind AI alley. Therefore we now inspect the code in window seven and we look for a reason why our recently published output is unwarrantedly being subjected to neural inhibition. -- http://robots.net/person/AI4U/diary/45.html ------------------------------------------- AGI Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/8660244-d750797a Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=8660244&id_secret=8660244-6e7fb59c Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
