Mentifex FAQ: http://www.nothingisreal.com/mentifex_faq.html
Some of the recent discussion on this list is making me wonder whether a very similar "AGI List FAQ" is needed warning about the unscientific, wacky and crank-ish discussion that takes place here. -Jey Kottalam On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 7:20 AM, A. T. Murray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In our JSAI coding over the last few days, we kept noticing > that the activation-level on S-V-O verbs was going to zero > immediately after the generation of a sentence of thought. > It looked obvious to us that something in there was > arbitrarily zeroing out the verbs. Last night we looked into > both Mind.Forth and Mind.html, and we quickly saw that a > verbClear module was zeroing out the verbs in the JSAI. > > Before we took a look at the two programs last night, > we mistakenly were assuming that the modern MindForth > was parroting back its first few sentences of > knowledge-base (KB) input, as if "cats eat fish" > would get a response of "CATS EAT FISH". Actually and > felicitously, the response was "FISH WHAT DO FISH DO". > > If the Forthmind had been parroting back its inputs, > there would have been a serious problem with the question > of what activational mechanism were activating the concepts > in the same order as they had come in. Luckily, Mind.Forth > has progressed far beyond the "actset" mentality (in both > the AI Mind and in the mind of its programmer) of forcing > a Subject-Verb-Object input to generate the same output. > > The http://mentifex.virtualentity.com/actrules.html webpage > on "Activation Rules" has gotten far out of date from its > last update a year ago on 21.MAY.2007, because "actset" > no longer plays any role at all in the AI Mind. Still, > there are some important insights in the "actrules" text. > > As we proceed today to transmogrify the JSAI verbClear() > module into the same sort of verbClip() module that we > have in MindForth, we begin to entertain the notion > that we may be able to get totally away not only from > verbClear but also from verbClip, if we manage not to > focus on verbs as such for the clipping of activation, > but rather on the no-longer-cresting concept as the item > that needs to have its activation drastically decreased. > In our break-out coding of Mind.Forth half a year ago, > it was difficult to get the AI to "detour" away from > defective thoughts if the verbs involved were maintaining > an unduly high post-thought activation. The verbClip > module in Mind.Forth was a way to knock out the > just-thought verbs and produce the "detour" response. > Soon a more mature Mind.Forth or http://AIMind-i.com > may subsume the verbClip operation into a generalized > and therefore less ad-hoc (Band-Aid tm) algorithm. > > Along the same line of thought -- following general > principles rather than grabbing at ad-hoc bugfixes -- > our Tutorial displays -- perhaps in MindForth but > more definitely in JavaScript Mind.html -- may start > to show not only the candidates for composing a > Subject-Verb-Object link in a chain of thought, > but many forms of cognitive association across the > entire mindgrid of the artificial Mind. > > ATM > -- > http://mind.sourceforge.net/Mind.html > http://mentifex.virtualentity.com/mind4th.html > > ------------------------------------------- > agi > Archives: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now > RSS Feed: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/ > Modify Your Subscription: http://www.listbox.com/member/?&; > Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com > ------------------------------------------- agi Archives: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/ Modify Your Subscription: http://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=8660244&id_secret=103754539-40ed26 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
