Hello Ben, Under separate cover I am sending you a rather explosive file of accumulated data for you to evaluate and interpret -- if you choose to do so. In the long tradition of spy novels, such as "The Quiller Memorandum" and "The Ipcress File," let's call it "The Goertzel Memorandum." I need here and now to write up some deep background on the Goertzel Memorandum in order that you may understand its genesis and appreciate its significance -- if any.
Your remark the other day on the SL4 list to the effect that "some of us have concrete AI projects to work on" reminds me that I can share "shop talk" with you because you have "been there, done that." The only difference is, I started my Mentifex AI project before you were born. Fast-forwarding now to 2007, recently I learned a new HTML trick in the human-computer interface (HCI) screen of the http://mind.sourceforge.net/Mind.html JavaScript AI Mind. Whereas previously I had cluttered up the top of the screen with a row of Weblinks that distracted from the AI essence, by chance I tried embedding a link in the "legend" of the Mind Control Panel, and it worked! Now the current AI Mind has links to the most crucially important Mentifex files. If your "concrete AI project" (Novamente) is anything like my own, a certain amount of "junk DNA" builds up over time in the AI source code. Two weeks ago I radically removed obsolete, commented-out code that had accumulated over two years of zigzag coding towards our True AI goal. Finally I rearranged the HCI screen to put the static Mind Control Panel at the top and the dynamic deep-thought tutorial at the bottom, so that the human user may "witness artificial intelligence thinking" and judge the veracity of my claim that "AI has been solved." At the bottom of the screen, the dynamic tutorial shows which concepts are being activated at each point in a meandering chain of thought. As the AI runs longer and longer, the dynamic listing of activated concepts grows and grows -- and crashes the JavaScript AI Mind program. Making room for more listed concepts should fix the bug. What I am trying to tell you and the projectless, Ben, is that Mentifex AI has suddenly become "interesting." It is all out in the open, on the Web at multiple meme-insertion points, and it is attracting scrutiny. Of course, it always did attract scrutiny, but many people gave up on Mentifex AI and went away scoffing. Gradually the AI Mind is mutating and evolving into a basic, thought-ready "AI Engine" with three tiers of mind -- consciousness, subconscious and "noise." Now I will e-mail to you the Goertzel Memorandum. ----- This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: http://v2.listbox.com/member/?list_id=303
