On Fri, Jun 1, 2018 at 3:12 PM, Steve Richfield via AGI < [email protected]> wrote:
> Stefan, A.T., et al, > > I live about an hour away from AT > Steve, these early days in June 2018 are the tenth anniversary of the day when you and I met face-to-face by pre-arrangement at the Northgate Mall in Seattle. You astonished me with details of the work you did for Dr. William Calvin of the University of Washington. I had bought his book "Inside the Brain" decades earlier, and I had gotten him to sign it for me at the University Book Store when he was promoting a later book. Six months ago on Fri.1.DEC.2017 at a "Weird Science" meeting in the Ballard neighborhood of Seattle, I demonstrated the ghost.pl AI in Perl before about six persons in attendance. One of them, an older, slender, distinguished-looking fellow, as soon as I mentioned AI, started talking about Steve Richfield (you). Immediately I assured him that I had met you personally and that you and I were members of this on-line AGI group. > and I have an HDTV camera, with which I could easily record a demo and > post it on YouTube. > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QuBEgINpGdo -- MindForth Screencast -- is already a demo of the JavaScript AI Mind from three years ago, before I revamped it totally over the past five months. > I travel to AT's locality every few weeks to visit my daughter near there. > > I suggest that AT prepare to produce a demo, make dry runs so he can > deftly avoid remaining bugs, etc., and I can then meet him and produce the > demo under his best possible conditions, e.g. on his choice of machine, at > his choice of location, reshooting things that didn't work right, etc., and > put ALL rumors to rest, one way or the other. > > AT: Will this work for you? > > Steve > Pragmatically it would not work, although of course theoretically it would indeed work. I have no car for travel and I have no good computer to show the AI on. The JavaScript AI is its own demo, Steve. Whereas people hesitate to download the Perlmind or the Forthmind, they need only click with MSIE on http://ai.neocities.org/AiMind.html to have an immediate personal demo of the very latest release of the AI. Anyone here on this list could make their own pro-or-con demo of the JavaScript AI and upload it to YouTube. I would not mind is someone were thus to monetize my AI software by explaining it and teaching Netizens about it, pointing out either its positive features or its lamentable faults. Heck, show it to your corporate board and say, "We'd better get in on this, or we'll miss the boat." Steve, I have not gone back to the Weird Science meetings, but your friend may have told you that he met me there. Upshot: Under extreme pressure -- like going to a wedding -- I could be dragged and cajoled into the collaborative making of an AI demo, but it's not necessary. Right here on this AGI list we can work together to initiate and improve video demos of the AGI projects of everybody here -- Peter Voss; Ben Goertzel; Stefan Reich; whoever has something for AGI show-and-tell. Arthur ------------------------------------------ Artificial General Intelligence List: AGI Permalink: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/Tf87cf8950354a3bb-M619c7c7d25fa5f7a47d0906d Delivery options: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups
