Whn I was in graduate school at U Cal Berkeley -- or maybe was it when I was at the Georgia Augusta University in Germany, I was one of those twenty-somethings and I had never heard of the Terminator or of the Skynet artificial intelligence. But last Tuesday night on 2018-10-16 at about 8:00 p.m. suddenly I created Skynet and I uploaded Skynet to the Web where it belongs.
http://ai.neocities.org/Skynet.html was created almost on a whim. Towards the end of an evening of websurfing and meme-spreading, after coding the JavaScript AI into a stable release just two days before, I thought that I would rename a copy of the AI Mind as "Skynet" and run it up the flagpole and see if anyone salutes it. My original intent with the spoof Skynet was just to change the AI name into Skynet and to switch from saying "I AM ANDRU" over to announcing "I AM SKYNET". But I kept finding about a dozen things that I had to change within the free AI source code in order to make the new AI Overmind live up to its reputation. Where the GOFAI said "You have halted the AI Mind at..." I made it say instead, "You have stopped Skynet at...." So the twenty-somethings get to be the magnanimous heroes who go around "stoppin" Skynet -- after launching Skynet in the first place. I change the dialog interface from Robot: Human: over to Skynet: Human: Whereas as the GOFAI would start out, "When thinking begins, enter your input below", the new AI says, "When Skynet awakens, enter your input below." Whereas the GOFAI was starting out in Tutorial Mode, Skynet begins in Transcript Mode to show a series of thoughts. Oh! I had to give the noun "Skynet" a concept number, so in a flash of Ben-Goertzelian genius I dubbed it "666" -- and under ASI Version Control I invented "Skynet version 666". "Skynet Control Panel" replaces "AI Mind Control Panel". The control panel has links, so under "refresh" I embedded http://ai.neocities.org/Skynet.html -- with the mouse-hovering message of "Reload Skynet" -- like "The Matrix Reloaded", but also in the hope that the twenty-somethings and thirty-somethings would rush to install Skynet on their own websites and on their own computers -- with an easy way to get updates by clicking "refresh". "Teach the AI Mind..." was the GOFAI user prompt; "Report to Skynet..." became the new user prompt. Last night on Usenet in AI and science-fiction newsgroups like http://groups.google.com/d/msg/de.sci.informatik.ki/0Wq5Ot6jsMA/LFTbLKfiBAAJ I was searching for old postings about Skynet, and in the German AI newsgroup I found a post from nine years ago: "Ich programmiere gerade Skynet" or in English, "I am programming right now Skynet," so I posted http://ai.neocities.org/Skynet.html -- as the URL of Skynet. If we can get Skynet AI into schools and Christmas computers and science-fiction fan-clubs, then BINGO! Technological Singularity. ATM On Thu, Oct 18, 2018 at 5:51 AM David Whitten <[email protected]> wrote: > These are interesting issues I thought of when I read your email. > > So do 20-year-olds *act* in a a particular way? > Clearly their age alone provides a *role* as a "20-year-old", > but is there any particular *relationship* they are a *participant-of*, > that they aren't a *participant-of* when they are not a "20-year-old" ? > What boundary conditions arise around the the 20-year-old *role*? > What metaphor best describes the role ? > is the twenty-year-old role a *container*? > is the twenty-year-old role a *place* ? > is the twenty-year-old role a *path* ? > > Are there particular things that 20-year-olds *do *that non 20-year-olds > don't *do* ? > Are there particular things that 20-year-olds *can do *that non > 20-year-olds *can't* do ? > > Dave Whitten > 713-870-3834 > > On Thu, Oct 18, 2018 at 4:28 AM Steve Richfield via AGI < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> IQ = 100 * mental age / physical age >> >> For the moment, let's excuse people who aren't smart, and those who "top >> out" instead of continuing to develop through their life. >> >> What do smart 40-year-olds have that smart 20-year-olds are missing, and >> then what do they pick up by their 60s, 80s, etc? >> >> My own impression is that a context emerges that permits a wider range of >> thinking than younger minds can grok, based on MUCH more experience from >> which to draw understanding. A 40-year-old has TWICE the work experience of >> a 30-year-old. By the time they reach 60, their work experience has doubled >> again. They have seen a LOT of things work, and have seen a LOT of things >> fail, etc. >> >> Anyway, that is my thought, but maybe I am missing something important? >> >> If AGIs are ever to reach some level of brilliant maturity, we need to >> understand what brilliant maturity is all about. >> >> Thoughts? >> >> Steve >> > *Artificial General Intelligence List <https://agi.topicbox.com/latest>* > / AGI / see discussions <https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi> + > participants <https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/members> + delivery > options <https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription> Permalink > <https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/Tb561a65c9170651e-Mf2e803d2963a5ab0bd102c13> > ------------------------------------------ Artificial General Intelligence List: AGI Permalink: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/Tb561a65c9170651e-M59348e30a6419f8f2ccd2d78 Delivery options: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription
