Matt,
Never underestimate the industriousness of a PATENT TROLL. He's already been
granted a new patent for the same concept, except (apparently, I haven't read
the patent yet, this time for "an ethical chip"). Patent #7236963 (awarded in
2007) for the "emotion chip." Don't worry, it's as indefensible as the first
one. Same random buzzword generator, different title.
The problem is giving one of these morons a technology patent is like giving an
ADHD kid a loaded gun. You know they're just looking to use it as blackmail for
some quick royalty fees. The posting here was, no doubt, for "intimidation
purposes." Of course, somebody ought to tell him the AGI crowd doesn't have
much use for a solution to the "ethical" artificial intelligence problem
(whatever the hell that is). Indeed, even after he tells us what it is, it
still doesn't make any sense. And I quote from the (first) patent's Abstract "A
new model of motivational behavior, described as a ten-level metaperspectival
hierarchy of..."
Say what? There is no such word as "metaperspectival." Not in English, at
least. Yet, that's the word he uses to "define" his invention. But, it gets
better...
"...ethical terms, serves as the foundation for an ethical simulation of
artificial intelligence." Well, I'm glad he intends to conduct his simulation
ethically. I think what he really meant, however, was “a simulation of ethical
artificial intelligence.” He does get half a grammar point for using the
correct article (“an”) before “ethical.” You don't see that much these days.
But, ah... we have another problem here. You see, artificial intelligence IS
ALREADY a simulation. In particular, it is a simulation of human intelligence.
Hence the word "artificial." At least, that's the idea. Does he really mean
his patent applies to a simulation of a simulation? Given that most existing AI
software is computationally intensive and gasping for breath most of the time,
that's got to be one slow-ass AI invention!
Again, from the Abstract of the first patent...
"This AI system is organized as a tandem, nested...” Sigh. Where I come from
(planet earth), tandem and nested are mutually exclusive modifiers. It's either
tandem (i.e., “along side of” or “behind each other”) or it's nested (i.e.,
“inside of”). Can't be both at the same time. Sorry.
Continuing, still in the Abstract...
“...overseen by a master control unit – expert system (coordinating the
motivational interchanges over real time).”
OMG. Let me see if I have this straight. He has succeeded in patenting a
simulation of a simulation with a “master control unit” that is, itself, another
simulation. The only thing that contraption will do in real time is sit there
looking stupid. That's presuming he could make it work which, as far as I can
tell by scanning his patent, is right up there with the probability we'll solve
the energy crises and the greenhouse effect using cold fusion.
I have a good dozen of these "gems," most of them from the Abstract alone. It
gets REALLY weird when you read the patent description where he talks about how
this invention solves the "affective language understanding" problem heretofore
unsolved. News Alert: the entire NLP "problem" has yet to be solved (after 50
of trying by some of the best minds in the world).
I have a PDF version of the newer patent (#7236963) which I will send (off-list)
to anyone interested. Be advised, it's 3MB+ in size. Alternatively, you can
read about it (see a picture of Mr. LaMuth, and download the PDF) at
www.emotionchip.net. I also have a PDF version of the other, earlier, patent he
holds (#6587846) – the supposed “recently issued” patent (actually, granted in
2003). I will also send this off-list to anyone interested (it's only about
1.3MB). Frankly, the reason these PDFs are so large is that every page is a
graphic image. The documents contain no data stored as text (that I could
find). This is pretty typical with U.S. Patent Office documents. Somebody
there really likes (or liked) the TIFF image format. Unfortunately, this makes
the Search function in Acrobat (or FoxIt Reader) completely useless.
BTW, this guy apparently uses a dialup ISP. Yeah. State of the art. Sheesh!
Cheers,
Brad
Matt Mahoney wrote:
This is a real patent, unfortunately...
http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect2=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&d=PALL&RefSrch=yes&Query=PN%2F6587846
But I think it will expire before anyone has the technology to implement it. :-)
-- Matt Mahoney, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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