What's wrong with wife-swapping? Everybody wants that.
On Wed, Jul 3, 2019, 15:00 A.T. Murray <[email protected]> wrote:
> Resolved: The university or community college shall offer a course on
> "Artificial intelligence in Latin language".
>
> Non-disclosure agreement (NDA): This information is not to be shared with
> the Computer Science department. At every major university, can you imagine
> the conniption fit and the "quo numine laeso" outrage sure to happen when
> the Department of Computer Science finds out that the fusty old, decrepit,
> past-shelf-life Classics Department is offering not only a series of
> courses in Latin AI but even a Ph.D. or B.A. degree in (gasp!) Artificial
> Intelligence?!!
>
> Everybody knows that colleges and universities are hotbeds of internecine
> warfare, in-fighting, back-stabbing, wife-swapping ("Uxorem habes cum
> populo!"), budget-raiding, one-upsmanship and "nostri est farago libelli".
> Feuds sparking in the Faculty Club can escalate to the Board of Trustees,
> with the Comp.Sci chair yammering, "The Classics Department can teach any
> course they want, but they can't have 'artificial intelligence' in the
> course title."
>
> COURSE DESCRIPTION (for on-line catalog):
> "Artificial intelligence in Latin language" AILA-101 is a course for
> beginners in the study of Latin. Students will learn Latin vocabulary and
> grammar,
> aided by interaction with a Latin artificial intelligence that invites the
> student to think and converse in Latin.
>
> "Artificial intelligence in Latin language" AILA-301 is an upper-division
> course for students already proficient in Latin and interested in the study
> of artificial intelligence. Students will learn to add new Latin vocabulary
> to an existing artificial Mind in Latin. Students will sculpt a special
> Latin knowledge base (KB) for a pre-existing Latin AI. Students with
> knowledge of computer programming will translate (port) a Latin AI in one
> computer language to another computer language.
>
> "Artificial intelligence in Latin language" AILA-501 is a graduate-level
> seminar for Ph.D. candidates seeking to make original contributions to the
> syncresis of classics, AI and robotics. Candidates will advance the state
> of the art (SOTA) with their supervised project chosen among topics
> including but not limited to machine translation; AI curating of classical
> literature; metempsychosis; robot embodiment; preservation of dead or dying
> languages; and elements of a theory of disruptive technology.
>
> SYLLABUS
> [There is no syllabus. People need to write books and papers about Latin
> AI.}
>
> BACKGROUND
> There was no field of Latin AI prior to Wed.17.APRIL.2019, when a
> classicist began writing the first Latin AI program in JavaScript.
> http://ai.neocities.org/InFerence.html was added to the Mens Latina in
> June of 2019, when the Latin AI began automated reasoning with logical
> inference.
>
> OPPORTUNITY
> Any Classics department may add a Latin AI course to the departmental
> on-line catalog for the academic quarter or semester beginning circa
> September 2019 and meanwhile build up the course-content from scratch.
> Gauge student interest by how many sign up to take the course, and allocate
> resources accordingly.
>
>
> https://groups.google.com/d/msg/humanities.classics/dnNzBlHIbhI/FMslyDD8CAAJ
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