Sometimes a Singularity issue sits atop an AGI issue. Recently an eminent neurotheoretician on the AGI list brought up the idea of "Myths about the Brain" and his
http://neuroelectrodynamics.blogspot.com/p/myths-about-brain.html blogpost on the subject. As is my wont, I went there and looked around. I was delighted to find http://neuroelectrodynamics.blogspot.com/p/concept-cells.html which was a blogpost attempting (in vain, I hope) to debunk http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grandmother_cell or the idea that a cell can contain a concept. But that is not why I have called you all to your monitors this morning. There is a 1917-esque revolution going on (actually, two of them) and we have got to either help it or hinder it. It just so happens that at the same time as Mentifex here has created artificial intelligence in Russian, there is an(other) epochal revolution going on in that Motherland of Revolutions. Ever the opportunist, Mentifex here has chosen to piggyback his AI/Singularity revolution on top of the Bolotnaya Square revolution being conducted at sub-zero temperatures in the streets of Moscow. Moscow! Can you believe it? And this is not the Storming of the Winter Palace; that took place in Sankt Petrburg, interimly Leningrad. (Hey, do you like that one, Natasha? "Interimly"? I can't say "formerly Leningrad" because it would be a partial truth. The Geroy-Gorod was formerly Petersburg, then Leningrad, then Petersburg again.] And why is Eugen Not-Onegin suddenly active, list-wise? There is something happening here -- stop, what's that sound? So the neuroelectrodynamicist is collecting, heck, begging for brain-myths on the AGI list, and I've got one that I need some clarity on, pronto. In order to stoke the fires of the Revolution(s) in Russia, I need to publish the Dushka Russian AI User Manual. But for Russian True AI, I needed to create a major default mechanism in the Russian-speaking AI Mind: imaginary be-verbs. We say "He engineer" in Russian, not "He is an angineer". The be-verb is left out. How do you code in software something left out? Bingo! You create a _default_. You ordain that there shall always be a be-verb _understood_ near the start of a Russian sentence. If you hear someone say "He..." in Russian, you must anticipate a be-verb unless and until you hear some other verb that must then cancel the be-verb. And I have just got this thing working in the http://www.scn.org/~mentifex/Dushka.html Russian AI Mind, but I need to finish the RuAiUser Manual for Russian artificial intelligence. To finish the AI Manual, I need to compose and publish a wiki-page about the DeFault in AI. To write the DeFault page, I need to clarify the Brain-Myth that goes something like this: Lower functions are suppressed by higher functions so that, if higher brain-functions fail, the lower brain-functions will assert themselves by default. If you know the true/false answer to this myth, please respond without delay, because the Revolution in Russia and the worldwide Singularity revolution cannot wait. Disclaimer: If you join the Revolution and Putin's pals poison you with polonium, do svidanya! Avant-guardedly yours, Mentifex -- http://cyborg.blogspot.com/2012/02/feb11ruai.html ------------------------------------------- AGI Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/21088071-c97d2393 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21088071&id_secret=21088071-2484a968 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
