Renatius Cartesius is no longer with us, but today we plan to use one of
his ideas to prove that artificial intelligence is alive and well in a
machine. We have recently expanded the heretofore primitive flag-panel of
associative tags in the Mens Latina Strong AI to a state of maturity where
the AI Mind has the power to think with a full panoply of five declensional
case-endings. For you officers, a panoply is an ancient Greek word formed
from "pan" meaning "all" and "hopla" meaning "weapons". Therefore the
"pan-hopla" or "panoply" of inflectional endings on Latin nouns and
adjectives gives the AI the ability, when in Rome, to think like the Romans
do.
All roads lead to Rome, and we are going to use our Cartesian coordinates
to get there. In Latin they often repeat the meme that "Non uno die facta
est Roma" or "Rome was not built in a day", although I once saw a New
Yorker-style cartoon in which a construction manager unfurls the blueprint
for Rome and says to his assistant, "Well, I guess we could throw it up in
about a day." Likewise the Mens Latina, which is now arguably for one brief
moment the most powerful concept-based AI in the world, was not built in a
day. In fact, on the twelfth day of Latin mind-making we tried but failed
to implement the Cartesian idea of "Cogito ergo sum" or "I think, therefore
I am." Our Latin AI Mind was too primitive to link the two ideas, which are
equivalent to saying, "I am, because I think." Our re-formulation of the
mid-AGI (Artificial General Intelligence) software includes not only points
of departure for the five main noun-cases in Latin (or Russian), but also
conceptual flag-panel tags for adjectives, adverbs and conjunctions. We
will treat the word "ergo" ("therefore") as a conjunction joining the two
ideas of "I think" and "I am", or "I exist".
In our newly Cartesian software, when a verb like "I think" is retrieved
from memory to express an idea, we will have the VerbPhrase module not only
fetch the verb from conceptual memory but also check the conceptual
verb-engram for any addition attachments such as an adverb or a
conjunction. Now let us go into the JavaScript AI code and tweak the
handling of verb-concepts. Oh, first we must modify the storage of the
Cartesian idea in the Latin mindboot sequence. We do so, and then we go
into the VerbPhrase module where a verb is being selected and we install
code that checks for a non-sero, positive value on the tcj
time-of-conjunction tag, which we load with any positive value so that the
AI Mind will be able to fetch and think the conjunction. We then have to
decide at which point in thought-generation the AI will state the
conjunction and its conjoined idea. Let us try the Latin-thinking LaThink
module. First we insert a test for a positive tcj flag with an alert-box
that lets us know that the flag is indeed holding a value. Then we insert
code to call the ConJoin module to state the conjunction and the Indicative
module to state the conjoined idea. We run the AI. It says "EGO COGITO EGO
INTELLIGO TE" -- not what we want. So we go into the ConJoin module and we
insert code to check for a positive tcj value and speak the conjunction,
but the rather stupid, albeit most advanced *NLU AI in the world says "EGO
COGITO ERGO EGO INTELLIGO TE" ("I think therefore I understand you"). The
output is wrong because it is simply stating the next emerging idea and not
the Cartesian punch-line. After much tweaking, we get "EGO COGITO SUM EGO
INTELLIGO TE" -- still not satisfactory. So we go away for a while, drink
coffee, read the New York Times, and then we start coding again. Finally we
get the AI to say "EGO COGITO ERGO EGO SUM".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cogito,_ergo_sum
http://ai.neocities.org/Abracadabra.html
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