Yeah but in all reality, your AI project isn't going anywhere, Mentifex. Granted, my progress is also hampered by poverty and such, but I do have something to show and loads of ideas up my sleeve.
With you, I see zero innovation. No new use case solved, nothing, over the past, what, 2 years? No forays into anything other than text (vision, auditory, whatever)? Be a little realistic. I don't hate you, but man it is painful to see someone claim something that is not real. On Tue, 10 Sep 2019 at 22:53, A.T. Murray <[email protected]> wrote: > From the Mentifex Autobiography (link at bottom): > > "In the mail that year I received a subscription copy of an issue of > Scientific American devoted totally to the human brain. One of the authors, > Dr. David Hubel at Harvard, had written both the foreword and one of the > major articles, so I figured that this scientist named Hubel was the most > worthy to receive a copy of my paper, and I mailed it to him at Harvard > University. I also mailed a copy of it to my scientific hero in > Switzerland, the Nobelist Sir John Carew Eccles. Months later, Dr. Hubel at > Harvard wrote back to me that "neural modeling" was not his specialty, and > so I should send the paper to either David Marr or Tomaso Poggio. I looked > both of them up in the university library, and it seemed that David Marr > had done the more important work in the field of vision, so I mailed the > paper to Marr, who eventually wrote back -- from his deathbed -- that I > should send the paper to a certain AI researcher at the Massachusetts > Institute of Technology and not expect an answer but still send the paper. > I did not bother to send the paper, and anyway that researcher was > eventually implicated in a major scandal. On the other hand, one day about > eight months after the mailing of the paper to Switzerland, I was > absolutely shocked to receive an airmail letter from the Nobelist in > neuroscience Sir John Carew Eccles. It was so amazing to me to have that > letter in my hand, that at first I could not open it. I just sat in an > armchair and stared at the letter from Eccles for ten or twenty or thirty > minutes, while my mind was racing with a brainstorm of thoughts of what it > would mean to now be in touch with arguably the world's foremost authority > on the human brain. When I finally did open the letter, I was flattered to > read that Sir Eccles thought that I was making a serious contribution. He > suggested that I send the paper to a certain researcher in New York, but I > never did." > > "A few years later, Dr. David Hubel shared a Nobel prize for his work > explaining the human visual system. Since I had now heard from two > Nobelists in neuroscience who took me seriously, I became impervious to the > slings and arrows of Mentifex-bashers who hounded and vilified me on the > Internet. The bashing took very strange and unusual forms, though. I > gradually discovered that in every AI-related newsgroup (discussion forum) > on Usenet, there was always at least one individual who considered himself > something like "the king of the hill," or the resident authority on the > subject matter. These lords of the flies did not like me coming in and > making my ESC (Extraordinary Scientific Claim) that I was creating True AI > or Strong AI or Artificial General Intelligence or whatever the > nomenclature was. Since I believed in my theory of mind, I also believed > very strongly in the AI software that I was trying to write. But the more I > tried to communicate my results, the more I was taken for some kind of > nutcase who was not only wrong but was absolutely convinced that he was > right. One netgod of Usenet wrote the very first Mentifex FAQ or > "Frequently Asked Questions" about Mentifex. Other Netizens started doing > things like putting an anti-Mentifex statement in the "SIG" or "signature" > block below their Usenet posts. Or they would e-mail me and ask me > something, then go on anti-Mentifex vendettas for years. I discovered that > the film director who made Saving Private Ryan had suffered a similar fate > at the start of his career when he was just one of the guys at a movie > studio and his co-workers deeply resented both his efforts to rise above > them and his success in rising above them. Luckily for me, I actually > enjoyed writing the AI software and getting it to work better and better." > > http://ai.neocities.org/mylife33.html -- My Life at Age Thirty-Three > > http://ai.neocities.org/VisRecog.html -- Visual Recognition Module > > *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/Ta9ef92db7ce9c030-M798fa7f9f1e2653c5ed9b320> > -- Stefan Reich BotCompany.de // Java-based operating systems ------------------------------------------ Artificial General Intelligence List: AGI Permalink: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/Ta9ef92db7ce9c030-M5f6bf0b71ca6a520d75e14a7 Delivery options: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription
