A young horse is fast But an old horse knows what's going on. Muddy Waters
On 10/18/18, A.T. Murray via AGI <[email protected]> wrote: > 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-Mf20c1dec5bbf6f3d5d4d65b2 Delivery options: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription
