Arthur, can I put in a request for a mind that speaks Toki Pona? That would be really fun! Its a simple language with a simple grammer comprised of only 120 words.
Sent from ProtonMail mobile -------- Original Message -------- On Apr 20, 2019, 4:24 PM, A.T. Murray wrote: > Three days ago on impulse we began coding a Latin AI Mind in JavaScript for > MSIE. We used JavaScript for the sake of what culture snobs call > "accessability". In art or in culture, if a work is "accessable", it means > that even hoi polloi can appreciate it. We classicists of ancient Greek and > Latin are extremely snobby, exceeded in this regard perhaps only by the > Egyptologists and by those who know Sanskrit. In fact, our local university > newspaper had an article a few weeks ago claiming that there are five million > modern speakers of Sanskrit and only nine individual speakers worldwide who > speak Latin as a second language. Immediately I took offense because they > obviously did not include memetipsum among the precious nine speakers of > Latin. On the Internet I tried to hunt down the source of this allegation, > this lese-majestation, this Chushingura-worthy objurgation that only nine > Earthlings speak Latin. The insult and the non-inclusion festered in my > Latin-speaking mind so much that I decided three days ago to show them that > not only are there more than nine Latin-speakers, but that even imbecile > Windoze machines can speak and think in Latin. And once I launched the Latin > AI project, I discovered that the fun and excitement of it all grew on me and > sucked me in stronger and stronger -- citius, altius, fortius. Sure, it's > just a hobby, but it's better than fiddling while Notre Dame burns. > > For my first release of the Mens Latina three nights ago, I simply did a > mutatis mutandis of changing the interface of my previous AI from English > into Latin, and I changed the links at the top from English links into Latin > links. Then I ran it up the Internet flagpole to see if anybody would salute > it, but nobody did. > > For my second release I actually inserted some Latin concepts into the > MindBoot sequence, but I had a terrible time trying to figure out a new name > for the English word "MindBoot". At first I was going to call it the > OmniScium as if it knew everything, but then I settled on PraeScium as the > sequence of innate prior knowledge that gets the AI up and running. I did > some more mutatis of the mutandis by changing the names of the main thinking > modules from English into Latin. But when I ran the AI, it reduplicated the > final word of its only innate idea and it said "EGO SUM PERSONA PERSONA". > Today for a third release we need to troubleshoot the problem. > > For the third release we have added one more innate idea, "TU ES HOMO" for > "You are a human being." We put some temporary activation on the pronoun "TU" > so that the Latin AI would find the activated idea and speak it. > Unfortunately, the AI says "TU ES HOMO HOMO". Something is still causing > reduplication. > > Into the "PraeScium" MindBoot section we added the words "QUID" for "what" > and "EST" for "is", so that the SpreadAct module could ask a question about > any new, unknown word. We mutandied the necessary mutatis in SpreadAct and we > began to see some actual thinking in Latin, some conversation between Robo > Sapiens and Homo Sapiens. We entered the word "terra" and the AI said, "QUID > EST TERRA". We answered "TERRA EST RES" and the AI asked us, "QUID EST RES". > It is now possible to ask the AI "quid sum ego" but, to quote Vergil, > responsa non dabantur fida satis. > > Mentis versio Abra003A in die Sat Apr 20 08:26:34 PDT 2019 > Robo Sapiens: TU ES HOMO HOMO > Homo Sapiens: terra > > Robo Sapiens: QUID EST TERRA > Homo Sapiens: terra est res > > Robo Sapiens: QUID EST RES > Homo Sapiens: > > Robo Sapiens: > Homo Sapiens: quid sum ego > > Robo Sapiens: TU ES HOMO HOMO ES HOMO HOMO > Homo Sapiens: > > -- > http://ai.neocities.org/Abracadabra.html > > http://medium.com/p/237437640203 > > [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/T9baf73b813714625-M0a5caa5918184d372a6a5124) ------------------------------------------ Artificial General Intelligence List: AGI Permalink: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/T9baf73b813714625-Mf3d0e686774fc5d1846c0168 Delivery options: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription
