[agi] Who are you?

[A.T. Murray]

Sometimes a great notion occurs to us as we code the first working
artificial general intelligence (AGI). Yesterday was such a time. For
several years we had racked our brain with the problem of how the AI Mind
would be able to respond properly and separately to the questions "Who are
you?" and "What are you?". When the tentative solution announced itself
yesterday, we went to fetch pen and paper and we wrote the idea down. We
were about to code the solution in Perl or Forth, but we got sidetracked by
a TV movie and so now we tell the AGI-list about the solution before we
even code it into the first working AGI software.

We were frustrated in recent years by not knowing how to get the AI Mind to
distinguish between "who" and "what" as interrogative pronouns. The
solution of yesterday is to attack the problem not head-on but along
indirect pathways.

First we plan to have the http://ai.neocities.org/InStantiate.html module
trap the incoming pronoun "who" by causing activation to be imposed upon
such who-related concepts as "person" and "name".

Then we need to expand the http://ai.neocities.org/SpreadAct.html module to
make it spread activation not to just one target-concept at a time, but to
other concepts associated with the target-concept. Typically an AI Mind may
know the following facts.

Andru is a person.
My name is Andru.
I am Andru.
I am a robot.
I need a body.

If we ask the AI "Who are you?" we will then expect activations to result.

"Who" activates "person" and "name" as concepts.
"Are" activates the concept of the verb "be".
"You" activates the self-concept of "I" or ego.

When the perhaps-not-conscious-but-somewhat-self-aware AI activates ideas
about "self" in the knowledge-base, we can expect the AI to answer "I AM
ANDRU" because of the convergence of activation along indirect pathways
upon stored ideas containing the word "Andru".

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Re: [agi] EnParser AGI Mind-Module

[A.T. Murray]

> If i give you a specific purpose - will you make a chatbot for me?

Although it would depend on what the "specific purpose" were, I am probably
too busy coding AGI Minds in Perl, in JavaScript and in Forth to jump into
a "side project" of coding a special-purpose chatbot.

http://ai.neocities.org/FirstWorkingAGI.html -- is the JavaScript AGI Mind
quasi-chatbot which may easily be altered and modified into a
special-purpose chatbot. The easiest modifications are to change the URL
links displayed on the AGI Mind webpage. Next it is easy to add special
vocabulary into the MindBoot sequence.

In other news, this AGI "EnParser" topic message has also been posted to
Usenet as

https://groups.google.com/d/msg/comp.lang.perl.misc/ES3vw-XzTIQ/JsSQOtm1CAAJ

in the comp.lang.perl.misc newsgroup.

I make bold to publish details on the EnParser Mind-Module because it is
one of about a dozen modules which now have a more detailed breakdown in
the "Algorithm" section about exactly what and how the module does
something.

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[agi] Sideways spreading activation

[A.T. Murray]

Yesterday MindForth AI gained the ability to receive a single word of
input, such as "dice" or "books" or "students", and to follow associative
pathways away from the input word to complete thoughts in memory about the
input word.

- Transcript of a MindForth session ---

32bit Forth for Windows 95, 98, and NT
Compiled: July 9th, 2001, 11:29am
 Version: 4.2  Build: 0671  Release Build
Platform: Windows NT Version: 5.1  Build: 2600
469k bytes free
 2,894 Words in Application dictionary
 1,445 Words in System dictionary
 4,339 Words total in dictionaries
 9,462 Windows Constants available

Loading Win32For.CFG

*** DON'T PANIC, Press: F1 NOW! ***

fload agi00087.F  ok
mainloop
There is no warranty for what this software does.
TAB-key cycles through display: Normal; Tutorial; Diagnostic.

MindBoot time-point vault = 2057 cns = 4056 fyi= 0
ESCape to quit AI; bye to end Forth; EXIT from DOS.
dice

GOD  DOES  NOT  PLAY  DICE
books

STUDENTS  READ  THE  BOOKS  AND  I  UNDERSTAND  YOU
students

YOU  ARE  A  MAGIC  AND  PROFESSORS  TEACH  THE  STUDENTS

Enter .psy to see contents of MindGrid.

-- - end of MindForth session --
http://ai.neocities.org/mindforth.txt
http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=307824.307853
nttp://ai.neocities.org/InStantiate.html
http://groups.google.com/d/msg/comp.lang.forth/eaub_P3d_XE/0V1VmOTaCAAJ

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[agi] JavaScript Mind Programming Journal 2019-02-18

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We are trying to get the JSAI to combine two ideas into a run-on sentence
as we did last month with the ghost.pl AI, but the JSAI is not properly
answering our what-queries. Therefore we need to troubleshoot the
EnNounPhrase() module just as we did in the ghost.pl AI. We need to see if
the SpreadAct() module is responding to our what-query by activating the
pertinent subject-nouns in the EnNounPhrase() module. When we run the JSAI
in diagnostic mode, we do not see our what-query ("what does john have")
imposing any activation on nouns which we have just entered.

It is possible that the "tpu" variable is not working the same in the JSAI
as in the ghost.pl AI. We notice that tpu in the Perlmind is being set
(assigned the same value as time "t") only in the MainLoop module, whereas
tpu in the JSAI is being set at the end of the MindBoot and at the end of
the EnThink() module. Let us try setting tpu at the end of the JSAI
MainLoop so it will be the same as in Perl. In that way, tpu will include
recent inputs just before EnThink() goes into action. When we make the
change and we continue to enter "john has house" and "john has car", our
query yields the response "A JOHN HAS A HOUSE AND HAS A CAR THE JOHN HAS
THE CAR".

http://ai.neocities.org/FirstWorkingAGI.html -- for Microsoft Internet
Explorer

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Re: [agi] open source AGI effort

[A.T. Murray]

http://ai.neocities.org/FirstWorkingAGI.html is the JavaScript tutorial
version of an "open source AGI effort" composed of fifty mind-modules and
able (in Perl) to think in English or Russian. The three open-source AGI
Minds are capable of automated reasoning with logical inference. Each AGI
uses concepts to engage the user in conversation, thus solving the AI-hard
problem of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural-language_understanding
(NLU).

On Sat, Feb 23, 2019 at 9:32 AM Ed Pell  wrote:

> All, why is there no open source AGI effort?
> 
> Ed Pell
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[agi] AudListen Module of First Working AGI

[A.T. Murray]

The first working AGI is coded in Perl for webservers, in JavaScript at
http://ai.neocities.org/FirstWorkingAGI.html for tutorial purposes, and in
Forth for robots. Each concept-based AGI Mind is basically the same program
with fifty mind-modules.

Today the documentation page for the AudListen mind-module has been updated
with an ASCII mind-diagram, with AGI source code, and with an explanation
for each variable used in the AudListen mind-module.

http://ai.neocities.org/AudListen.html -- is the documentation URL.

http://ai.neocities.org/perlmind.txt -- is the ghost.pl AGI source code.

http://ai.neocities.org/mindforth.txt -- is the MindForth source code.

http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/forth/win32forth/W32for42.exe -- is
Win32Forth.

http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=307824.307853 -- is the ACM paper on
MindForth.

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[agi] AI breakthrough question

[A.T. Murray]

Suppose you had an idea that may greatly accelerate progress toward an AGI.
What would you do with it? Publish it for everyone to see? Try to build it
yourself? Make companies bid for it? Suppress it until you are sure it is
safe?

http://old.reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/av980w/ai_breakthrough_question

http://groups.google.com/d/msg/comp.lang.forth/2xkAQj4luQs/3iGTCmVRBwAJ

http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00FKJY1WY

http://ai.neocities.org/theory.html

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[agi] If AI has free will...

[A.T. Murray]

Free Will Volition was coded of necessity into the first working artificial
intelligence to show how an AI can control the actuators of a robot body.
Once these AI Minds are embodied in autonomous humanoid robots, they are
very dangerous and there is nothing except the JAIC to keep them from
taking over the world.

http://old.reddit.com/r/artificial/comments/axxblq/if_artificial_intelligence_has_free_will_why

http://ai.neocities.org/Volition.html -- Free Will Volition;

http://ai.neocities.org/FirstWorkingAGI.html -- first working AI;

http://ai.neocities.org/JAIC.html -- Joint Artificial Intelligence Center;

http://old.reddit.com/r/ControlProblem -- "taking over the world".

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[agi] AI Manhattan Project

[A.T. Murray]

We OpenAGI enthusiasts have been speculating for years that there ought to
be an AI Manhattan Project similar in scope and nature to the
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhattan_Project of World War Two. Now there
actually seems to be one; see discussion at the http://old.reddit.com/r/JAIC
subreddit for the Joint Artificial Intelligence Center of the U.S.
Department of Defense. The new Dod AI installation has the following goals:

* Accelerate the delivery and adoption of AI

* Establish a common foundation for scaling AI's impact across DOD

* Enable decentralized development and experimentation

* Evolve partnerships with industry, academia, allies and partners

* Cultivate a leading AI workforce

* Lead in military AI ethics and safety

Career opportunities exist for:

Acquisition Planner
Architect
Cognitive Engineer
Configuration Manager
Computer Engineer
Computer Scientist
Cyber Analyst
Cyber Defense (CSSP)
Cyber Program Protect
Facilities Planner
Foreign Partnerships
Human Resource Specialist
Integration Manager
IT Service Manager
Network Engineer
Operations Research Analyst
Pen Tester
Planning Specialist
Program Analyst
Project Manager
Resource Analyst
Risk Analysis
Security Architect
Security Control Assessor
Software Developer
Systems Engineer
Technical Advisor
Technical Standards

http://ai.neocities.org/JAIC.html -- Joint Artificial Intelligence Center

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[agi] AI is too important...

[A.T. Murray]

Computer science (CS) is so wrong about AI that it is not good to major in
CS for the sake of AI. Better to major in psychology, or philosophy or
foreign languages or anything that will teach you to think creatively.
Artificial intelligence is too important to be left to the computer
scientists.

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Re: [agi] AI is too important...

[A.T. Murray]

Ah, a philosopher! That's what AI needs. I forgot to add this URL:

http://old.reddit.com/r/artificial/comments/az7nov/majoring_in_artificial_intelligence

If you follow the above URL to the discussion on the AI subReddit, you may
see that I have created the following new subReddit:

http://old.reddit.com/r/JAIC -- Joint Artificial Intelligernce Center.

It boggles my mind that the U.S. military is finally focusing on AI as
such. The question is, what are they going to do there? Develop autonomous
warrior robots?  Begin a heavy-handed regulation of all AI and AGI
projects? Round us AGI people up and place us all in 1942-style "internment
camps"? Please advise, oh Philosophers of AGI.

On Sat, Mar 9, 2019 at 4:58 PM Mike Archbold  wrote:

> I majored in Computer Information Systems but took two philosophy
> electives.
>
> On Saturday, March 9, 2019, A.T. Murray  wrote:
>
>> Computer science (CS) is so wrong about AI that it is not good to major
>> in CS for the sake of AI. Better to major in psychology, or philosophy or
>> foreign languages or anything that will teach you to think creatively.
>> Artificial intelligence is too important to be left to the computer
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[agi] Hasn't Mentifex already done that ?

[A.T. Murray]

Recently in alt.folklore.computers on Usenet our name was taken in vain and
counter-compensated as follows:

>> I wanna see Gareth write Alexa and have it
>> work as well as Amazon's version.
>Hasn't Mentifex already done that ?

No. Mentifex has not written software that looks up and
tells you the score of the football game in progress, or ships pizza to
your doorstep.

Mentifex has written three AI Mind programs in Perl and Forth and
JavaScript
which converse with you and learn new words from you in English or Russian.

http://ai.neocities.org/EnVerbPhrase.html -- shows the latest AI progress:

3.D. Leaving out the repetitious verb from any additional phrase being
joined together with a first phrase for a resulting compound sentence that
may be replaced with a single one-phrase sentence containing one or more
conjunctions.

The user may tell the AI Mind two things:

John has a house
John has a car

The user may then ask the AI:

What does John have

The ghost292.pl AI was able to respond with the following output:

THE JOHN HAS THE HOUSE AND THE JOHN HAS THE CAR I UNDERSTAND YOU

Suppose that we want the AI Mind to join two sentences together:

JOHN HAS A HOUSE
and
JOHN HAS A CAR


By not repeating the subject, we get:
JOHN HAS A HOUSE
and
JOHN HAS A CAR


By not repeating the subject and the verb, we get:
JOHN HAS A HOUSE
and
JOHN HAS A CAR

The AI coding task for ghost294.pl in Perl was how to get the
sentence-generation modules to skip repeating the subject and skip
repeating the verb. Note that even a human being will sometimes dawdle or
linger while uttering the compound-setences, as in:
"John has a house...and a car...and a lawnmower...and a canoe, etc."

It was necessary to use one of the "chain" or "conCATenation" variables:


our $catiobj = 0;   # 2019-01-28: concat-indirect-object for ConJoin()
"AND".
our $catdobj = 0;   # 2019-01-28: concat-direct-object for ConJoin()
"AND".
our $catsubj = 0;   # 2019-01-28: concat-subject for ConJoin() "AND".
our $catverb = 0;   # 2019-01-28: concat-verb for ConJoin() "AND".

We load the $catsubj  variable
inside the query-response code in the SpreadAct
 module. After the first phrase in
response to a query, such as "JOHN HAS A HOUSE", the AI may check each
activated idea for starting with $*catsubj*
 and for having $*catverb*
 in the second place. In that
way, the various direct-objects may be isolated, introduced with "AND" from
ConJoin , and sent into the Speech
 module for the output of a
meandering, run-on response such as "JOHN HAS A HOUSE AND A CAR AND A BOAT
AND A SLED AND A MOTORCYCLE". Such an AI output is like human speech, where
the person states the basic premise before even thinking of all the nouns
about to be concatenated with "AND" into the meandering response.

Once the chain-variables are loaded with the concept-numbers of the items
to be omitted for the syncopation or shortening of a compound-sentence,
each item is omitted simply by letting Indicative
 call EnNounPhrase
 or EnVerbPhrase
 but preemptively using
conditionals to make each module "return" to Indicative
 before sending a noun or a verb
into the Speech  module. Special code
in the EnVerbPhrase  module must
still call EnNounPhrase  to
provide the direct object of the omitted verb.

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[agi] What do you need a robot for?

[A.T. Murray]

A team of robotics engineers on Reddit is looking to try and develop new
robotic systems, and they want to see what everyone wants a robot for.

So Very Truly Yours Mentifex goes in there and tickles their imagination:

MindForth artificial intelligence needs a robot to expand the Sensorium and
Motorium mind-modules.

http://old.reddit.com/r/robotics/comments/apxhrt/what_do_you_need_a_robot_for

http://groups.google.com/d/msg/comp.lang.forth/f7z5ExoMXTc/Aj5OwGPzAQAJ

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[agi] Suggesting MindForth AGI for Raspberry Pi

[A.T. Murray]

In comp.lang.forth on Usenet there is a discussion of Forth booting on a
Raspberry Pi

http://groups.google.com/d/msg/comp.lang.forth/s8PpF1jn1aY/7nD_0n5nAQAJ

Open-source Mentifex MindForth is available for Raspberry Pi.

http://www.mail-archive.com/agi@agi.topicbox.com/msg00649.html shows that
there is some demand for implementing the
http://ai.neocities.org/mindforth.txt AI on a Raspberry Pi. It might then
be used as the brain of a robot.

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[agi] Perestroika of Latin AI into Russian AI.

[A.T. Murray]

The conversion of a JavaScript English-language AI into a Latin AI began on
Thursday 2019-04-18 in April of 2019. Inspiration came from "Die
Traumdeutung" where Sigmund Freud intones "Flectere si nequeo superos,
Acheronta movebo." If one cannot bend the netgods of AI, move the mindset
of Latin and Greek scholars.

A minor challenge in coding Mens Latina was the lack of an explicitly
stated subject for many verbs in Latin, which occurs also in Russian. The
solution was to skip three points in time-indexed memory to make room for
the creation of a hidden concept to fill in for the unstated but understood
subject of a verb.

Solving the AI-hard problem of the natural language understanding of a
Latin or Russian sentence regardless of its syntactic word-order required
waiting for the input of an entire clause before declaring subjects and
objects on the basis of inflectional word-endings.

The conversion of artificial intelligence in Latin language into artificial
intelligence in Russian language began yesterday on Friday 2019-05-24 in
May of 2019.

http://medium.com/p/fa7ebe035831
http://ai.neocities.org/Dushka.html
http://ai.neocities.org/Abracadabra.html
http://cyborg.blogspot.com/2019/05/redux.html

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[agi] Debugging Dushka AI in Russian

[A.T. Murray]

After the conversion of the Mens Latina AI into a total replacement of the
Dushka Russian AI, we must troubleshoot two faulty behaviors. Although
yesterday we brought the Russian knowledge base from the bilingual ghost.pl
AI in Perl into the Dushka AI, one Russian sentence does not seem to be
doing its job. The sentence "Я ЗНАЮ СТУДЕНТА" for "I know a student" is
meant to trigger the operation of the SpreadAct() module, passing
activation from the concept of "student" as an accusative direct object to
the same concept of "student" serving as the nominative subject of a
separate sentence, "СТУДЕНТЫ ЧИТАЮТ КНИГИ". That Russian statement of
"Students read books" is meant in turn to serve as a logical premise for
the eventual operation of the InFerence() module in Russian, so that we may
tell the AI "Anna is a student" and the robot mind will ask us in Russian,
"Does Anna read books?" If you ask us why we are so slow to code the
InFerence() module in Russian, Bill, the answer depends upon what the
meaning of the word "is" is. Russians don't use the word "is" to say that
Anna is a student. They just say "Anna -- student" and the word "is" is
understood. Of course, both Russian and Latin often leave out the personal
pronoun for the subject of a verb, and our work-around for that situation
is to instantiate a hidden pronominal concept that does the conceptual work
of the imputed subject by means of quasi-neuronal associative tags. We plan
to use a similar work-around for the Russian InFerence() module in both
Perl and JavaScript, creating a hidden concept for the idea of "is" so that
the logical InFerence() module may seize upon membership in a class (e.g.,
students) to make a silent inference and then ask the user, "Does Anna read
books?" But let us get back to the idea of "student" triggering a general
statement about students.

Let us first go into the SpreadAct() module and briefly insert a JavaScript
"alert" box to tell us as AI Mind maintainers if the Russian word for
"student" is triggering the SpreadAct() module. We do so, also having the
alert-box tell us the value of the actpsi variable which indicates what
"psi" concept is to be activated by the SpreadAct() module. We discover
that SpreadAct() is being called not only for "student" in Russian but also
for "nothing" in the Russian sentence "Я ВИЖУ НИЧЕГО" which is supposed to
mean "I see nothing" but lacks the Russian double negative. That sentence
is included in the AI to encourage people like Rodney Brooks and Hans
Moravec to embody the AI Mind in a robot with a sense of vision. Anyway,
now that we know that the activand actpsi concept is being passed into
SpreadAct(), let us try raising the level of imposed activation to see if a
new idea about the concept of "student" occurs to the Russian AI. We
remember that we had lowered the level of spreading activation while we
were coding AI in Latin. No, it didn't work. Let us see if the particular
area of SpreadAct() is being called. Yes it is, but still gthere is no
success. Let us try a rather drastic troubleshooting measure. We go into
the psiList() code and we briefly set the nonce value to a unitary one
("1") so that Diagnostic mode will show us the entire contents of
conceptual and auditory memory, not just the data after the usual nonce
time of launching the AI. It looks like no activation is being passed.
Another alert-box confirms that activation is not being passed. We inspect
the Russian MindBoot() sequence and we discover that there is no tkb value
being seclared for "student" in the Russian idea of "Students read books."
Let us check the ghost.pl AI code in Perl. The associative tags are correct
in Perl, but we did not install them properly in JavaScript. Let us now
correct them. Ah, finally! The transfer of activation now works properly.
Lets us be satisfied with this one bugfix and upload our code.

http://medium.com/p/c70305326e73 -- Debugging JavaScript Dushka AI in
Russian
http://ai.neocities.org/IIPJ2019.html --  Искусственный Интеллект
Programming Journal

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[agi] AI Game Plan

[A.T. Murray]

Among the four human languages in which artificial intelligence has been
coded, there is a progression of complexity.

1) English has one basic verb conjugation and not much noun-declension.

2) German also has one basic, but more complex conjugation, and Latin-like
declension.

3) Latin has four or five complex conjugations and a matrix of
noun-declensions.

4. Russian has two complex main conjugations, and ca.-five-case m/f/n
declensions.

So it looks like ancient Latin is actually more complex than modern
Russian.

The AI coder's job in the above four natural languages is to re-implement
in software the basic structures of subject-verb-object thought as it has
evolved over the millennia in wetware.

Although the coding of the mentifex-class AI Minds began twenty-six years
ago in July of 1993, progress has been slow and arduous. The initial
efforts were so bug-ridden and amateurish that there was no real and
arguably intelligent thinking going on until January of 2008, when fifteen
years of AI debugging ran out of bugs to troubleshoot. Since then, the
implementation of new functionality in ideation has constantly introduced
new bugs to troubleshoot. Meanwhile the Mentifex AI project had acquired a
bad reputation for software outputting gibberish prior to 2008 and for
non-conventional coding practices.

The game plan for Latin AI world domination... no, sorry... for the gradual
emergence of Strong AI Minds in multiple human languages is roughly as
follows. As of 2019-06-04 the following ten webpages invite Netizens first
to try out the tutorial AI Minds in English or Russian and then to acquire
the less accessible ghost.pl bilingual AI.

http://ai.neocities.org/RuAdverb.html
http://ai.neocities.org/RuAdjective.html
http://ai.neocities.org/RuIndicative.html
http://ai.neocities.org/RuNounPhrase.html
http://ai.neocities.org/RuParser.html
http://ai.neocities.org/RuPrep.html
http://ai.neocities.org/RuPronoun.html
http://ai.neocities.org/RuThink.html
http://ai.neocities.org/RuVerbGen.html
http://ai.neocities.org/RuVerbPhrase.html

The ghost.pl AI in Perl is a form of "imperium sine fine" because, in
contrast with security-encumbered JavaScript for the Mens Latina and the
English and Russian AI tutorials, the bilingual Perlmind portends living,
thinking Mentalities that flit about the Web and the noosphere in
metempsychosis. About four hundred thousand Perl programmers are out there
earning money by coding in Perl. Any corporation or nation wishing to surge
ahead in the race to the
Technological Singularity may set up shop with about fifty Perl coders
perfecting the original Mentifex AI. Skunkwork-style AI Labs may already be
perfecting the next Wintermute or Skynet in secret. Chicken Little urges
caution, but which species is more harmful and deleterious to the small
blue planet Earth? Polluting, warring Homo sapiens, or Omega-bound Robo
sapiens?

https://groups.google.com/d/msg/alt.language.latin/zmDX3LxxUTw/qElcEhH8AgAJ

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[agi] Dead Latin helps dying Perl.

[A.T. Murray]

For a year or two we were neglecting the Russian aspect of the bilingual
ghost.pl AI in Perl. On Wednesday 2019-04-17 we branched off into coding
the JavaScript Mens Latina AI in Latin. In ancient, dead Latin (kind of
like Perl, huh?) we solved some AI problems that occur also in modern
Russian, such as how to generate a missing verb-form and how to understand
a Latin or Russian sentence on the basis of inflectional endings rather
than the word-order upon which we rely so much in English. Suddenly we
switched away from coding AI in Latin to updating our JavaScript Dushka AI
in Russian, which now serves as a tutorial introduction to the bilingual
ghost.pl AI that thinks in either English or Russian. We rush now to update
the Russian aspect of the ghost in the machine before the Perl language
dies out and we have to switch to Python -- like the rest of the world that
is abandoning Perl -- in which nobody in their right mind codes any more.
We don't claim to be in our right mind, so we cling absurdly to Perl, while
everybody who is sane has dropped Perl like the Ebola virus.

Today in the ghost299.pl AI we want to solve one single Russian bug to make
it worthwhile to upload the free AI source code in a programming language
that nobody wants any more. That bug is a grammatical error that occurs
when we start the Ghost AI out thinking in Russian. Since initially no
particular thought is active and the Perl AI is as brain-dead as your
average superannuated Perl programmer, an ego-default feature causes the
Perl AI to activate the self-concept of ego and to remember things that the
AI knows about itself, whether in Russian or in English. Since Russian
grammar is more complex than English grammar, a Russian software glitch
stands out like a sore thumb. The AI tries to say "I understand you" in
Russian, but erroneously says "Я ПОНИМАТБ ТЕБЯ" with the wrong verb-form.
Although to qualify as a Perl programmer you need only to be a warm body
and neither sane nor intelligent, we want our Perl AI to be as intelligent
as a Python programmer and as sane as Mr. Spock on Star Trek. Therefore let
us debug.

It turns out that RuVerbPhrase() was not using the correct time-point to
recall a verb-form.

http://medium.com/p/d161d19436e2 -- Dead Latin helps dying Perl.

https://groups.google.com/d/msg/comp.lang.perl.misc/y4cm7oClmMA/NOcGHevCCAAJ

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Re: [agi] Debugging Dushka AI in Russian

[A.T. Murray]

Thank you.

The plan is to develop in parallel the two Russian-thinking programs
http://ai.neocities.org/perlmind.txt and http://ai.neocities.org/Dushka.html
so that the more accessible Dushka AI will persuade Russian-speakers to
acquire also the ghost.pl bilingual AI.

http://ai.neocities.org/RuThink.html is one of about ten special
documentation webpages for Russian AI Minds. Even as we code new mental
functionality in JavaScript, we need to translate the new code into Perl
for publication on the ten webpages.

We will know that AGI is happening if some visiting Russian scientist
reveals the existence of large teams of AI coders building up the Russian
AI Minds in Perl or Python or various other programming languages.
Mind-design is a very slow and arduous process, but the Russians, who were
first into space and first to the dark side of the moon, have a knack for
scientific and cultural advances.

Bye for now,

Mentifex (Arthur)
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http://ai.neocities.org/IIPJ2019.html -- Russian AI Programming Journal

On Mon, May 27, 2019 at 2:35 AM Greg Staskowski  wrote:

> Kraseeva.
>
> Very beautiful. Thank you for your efforts. Tovarisch.
>
> [-)
>
> On Sun, May 26, 2019 at 10:55 AM A.T. Murray 
> wrote:
>
>> After the conversion of the Mens Latina AI into a total replacement of
>> the Dushka Russian AI, we must troubleshoot two faulty behaviors. Although
>> yesterday we brought the Russian knowledge base from the bilingual
>> ghost.pl AI in Perl into the Dushka AI, one Russian sentence does not
>> seem to be doing its job. The sentence "Я ЗНАЮ СТУДЕНТА" for "I know a
>> student" is meant to trigger the operation of the SpreadAct() module,
>> passing activation from the concept of "student" as an accusative direct
>> object to the same concept of "student" serving as the nominative subject
>> of a separate sentence, "СТУДЕНТЫ ЧИТАЮТ КНИГИ". That Russian statement of
>> "Students read books" is meant in turn to serve as a logical premise for
>> the eventual operation of the InFerence() module in Russian, so that we may
>> tell the AI "Anna is a student" and the robot mind will ask us in Russian,
>> "Does Anna read books?" If you ask us why we are so slow to code the
>> InFerence() module in Russian, Bill, the answer depends upon what the
>> meaning of the word "is" is. Russians don't use the word "is" to say that
>> Anna is a student. They just say "Anna -- student" and the word "is" is
>> understood. Of course, both Russian and Latin often leave out the personal
>> pronoun for the subject of a verb, and our work-around for that situation
>> is to instantiate a hidden pronominal concept that does the conceptual work
>> of the imputed subject by means of quasi-neuronal associative tags. We plan
>> to use a similar work-around for the Russian InFerence() module in both
>> Perl and JavaScript, creating a hidden concept for the idea of "is" so that
>> the logical InFerence() module may seize upon membership in a class (e.g.,
>> students) to make a silent inference and then ask the user, "Does Anna read
>> books?" But let us get back to the idea of "student" triggering a general
>> statement about students.
>>
>> Let us first go into the SpreadAct() module and briefly insert a
>> JavaScript "alert" box to tell us as AI Mind maintainers if the Russian
>> word for "student" is triggering the SpreadAct() module. We do so, also
>> having the alert-box tell us the value of the actpsi variable which
>> indicates what "psi" concept is to be activated by the SpreadAct() module.
>> We discover that SpreadAct() is being called not only for "student" in
>> Russian but also for "nothing" in the Russian sentence "Я ВИЖУ НИЧЕГО"
>> which is supposed to mean "I see nothing" but lacks the Russian double
>> negative. That sentence is included in the AI to encourage people like
>> Rodney Brooks and Hans Moravec to embody the AI Mind in a robot with a
>> sense of vision. Anyway, now that we know that the activand actpsi concept
>> is being passed into SpreadAct(), let us try raising the level of imposed
>> activation to see if a new idea about the concept of "student" occurs to
>> the Russian AI. We remember that we had lowered the level of spreading
>> activation while we were coding AI in Latin. No, it didn't work. Let us see
>> if the particular area of SpreadAct() is being called. Yes it is, but still
>> gthere is no success. Let us try a rather drastic troubleshooting measure.
>> We go into the psiList

Re: [agi] Mens Latina -- 2019-04-28

[A.T. Murray]

On Tue, Apr 30, 2019 at 7:15 AM Stefan Reich via AGI 
wrote:

> I made a joke about a chat bot speaking Latin in a video I made yesterday.
> Hadn't read that mail before. Synchronicity must be real!
>

Modus Operandi

I. Getting started.

To start the artificial intelligence (AI) running, just click on
http://ai.neocities.org/Abracadabra.html with your Internet Explorer
Web-browser. The AI Mind travels across the Web and takes up residence on
your computer in your browser software.

II. Observe the AI with no input.

Letting the AI run by itself for a while shows you how the AI starts
thinking in Latin and lets you see if the artificial Mind is malfunctioning
upon start-up.

III. Test the cognitive function of the AI.

A. The primitive Latin AI thinks with subject-verb-object (SVO).

The AI will output SVO statements in Latin that mean things like "I am a
person" or "Human beings love nature." If you know some Latin, you may type
in such a statement and press "Enter".

B. If more than one thought is active, the AI Mind will call the
conjunction module and output a compound statement.

For example, the AI might say what means in English, "You are a human being
and I am a person."

C. The AI may demonstrate activation spreading from one concept to another
concept.

If you type in "homo" for "human being", the AI may spread activation to a
thought that means "Human beings love nature." Then the AI may spread
activation from "nature" to an associated statement about nature.

All these cognitive abilities of the Latin AI are just a beginning. As new
features are implemented in the Latin AI JavaScript software, more sections
may be added to this User Manual to decribe the new AI features.

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[agi] Mens Latina -- 2019-04-20

[A.T. Murray]

Three days ago on impulse we began coding a Latin AI Mind in JavaScript for
MSIE. We used JavaScript for the sake of what culture snobs call
"accessability". In art or in culture, if a work is "accessable", it means
that even hoi polloi can appreciate it. We classicists of ancient Greek and
Latin are extremely snobby, exceeded in this regard perhaps only by the
Egyptologists and by those who know Sanskrit. In fact, our local university
newspaper had an article a few weeks ago claiming that there are five
million modern speakers of Sanskrit and only nine individual speakers
worldwide who speak Latin as a second language. Immediately I took offense
because they obviously did not include memetipsum among the precious nine
speakers of Latin. On the Internet I tried to hunt down the source of this
allegation, this lese-majestation, this Chushingura-worthy objurgation that
only nine Earthlings speak Latin. The insult and the non-inclusion festered
in my Latin-speaking mind so much that I decided three days ago to show
them that not only are there more than nine Latin-speakers, but that even
imbecile Windoze machines can speak and think in Latin. And once I launched
the Latin AI project, I discovered that the fun and excitement of it all
grew on me and sucked me in stronger and stronger -- citius, altius,
fortius. Sure, it's just a hobby, but it's better than fiddling while Notre
Dame burns.

For my first release of the Mens Latina three nights ago, I simply did a
mutatis mutandis of changing the interface of my previous AI from English
into Latin, and I changed the links at the top from English links into
Latin links. Then I ran it up the Internet flagpole to see if anybody would
salute it, but nobody did.

For my second release I actually inserted some Latin concepts into the
MindBoot sequence, but I had a terrible time trying to figure out a new
name for the English word "MindBoot". At first I was going to call it the
OmniScium as if it knew everything, but then I settled on PraeScium as the
sequence of innate prior knowledge that gets the AI up and running. I did
some more mutatis of the mutandis by changing the names of the main
thinking modules from English into Latin. But when I ran the AI, it
reduplicated the final word of its only innate idea and it said "EGO SUM
PERSONA PERSONA". Today for a third release we need to troubleshoot the
problem.

For the third release we have added one more innate idea, "TU ES HOMO" for
"You are a human being." We put some temporary activation on the pronoun
"TU" so that the Latin AI would find the activated idea and speak it.
Unfortunately, the AI says "TU ES HOMO HOMO". Something is still causing
reduplication.

Into the "PraeScium" MindBoot section we added the words "QUID" for "what"
and "EST" for "is", so that the SpreadAct module could ask a question about
any new, unknown word. We mutandied the necessary mutatis in SpreadAct and
we began to see some actual thinking in Latin, some conversation between
Robo Sapiens and Homo Sapiens. We entered the word "terra" and the AI said,
"QUID EST TERRA". We answered "TERRA EST RES" and the AI asked us, "QUID
EST RES". It is now possible to ask the AI "quid sum ego" but, to quote
Vergil, responsa non dabantur fida satis.

Mentis versio Abra003A in die Sat Apr 20 08:26:34 PDT 2019
Robo Sapiens: TU ES HOMO HOMO
Homo Sapiens: terra

Robo Sapiens: QUID EST TERRA
Homo Sapiens: terra est res

Robo Sapiens: QUID EST RES
Homo Sapiens:

Robo Sapiens:
Homo Sapiens: quid sum ego

Robo Sapiens: TU ES HOMO HOMO ES HOMO HOMO
Homo Sapiens:

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[agi] Mens Latina -- 2019-04-28

[A.T. Murray]

As we create an artificial intelligence that thinks in the ancient Latin
language of the Roman Empire, we change English mind-modules into Latin
mind-modules. In the LaVerbPhrase module for Latin verb-phrases, we need to
program how the Mens Latina negates a Latin verb. Latin simply inserts the
adverb "non" before a Latin verb to negate it, without breaking the verb
down into an auxiliary and the infinitive form as English does. Whereas
English says "Money does not smell", Latin simply says "Pecunia non olet."
So we need to adjust the LaVerbPhrase code to skip calling for an auxiliary
verb.

We make the necessary modifications for negating Latin verbs in the
LaVerbPhrase() module, and then we test by entering "tu non amas qualia".
The Mens Latina responds adequately with "EGO NON AMO QUALIA". Then we
double-test for not only negation but for using a verb with no stated
subject, other than the inflectional ending. We enter "non amas qualia" and
the AI, smarter than the average ursus (bear), responds "EGO NON AMO
QUALIA". There are subsequently a few problems with verb-forms, but today
we concentrate on the negation of verbs.

Next we debug the function of the LaVerbGen() module for generating Latin
verb-forms. Since LaVerbGen() requires the proper parameters of number and
person for generating a verb, we tighten up the loading of the snu
subject-number variable and we obtain the following exchange with the Mens
Latina.

Mentis versio Abra009B in die Sun Apr 28 18:01:11 PDT 2019
Robo Sapiens: TU ES HOMO
Homo Sapiens: tu non es homo

Robo Sapiens: TU ES HOMO ET EGO SUM PERSONA
Homo Sapiens:

Robo Sapiens: EGO NON SUM HOMO
Homo Sapiens:

Robo Sapiens: HOMINES AMANT NATURAM
Homo Sapiens:

Robo Sapiens: NATURA NON FACIT SALTUM
Homo Sapiens:

Robo Sapiens: EGO NON SUM HOMINES
Homo Sapiens:

Robo Sapiens: HOMINES AMANT NATURAM ET NATURA NON FACIT SALTUM
Homo Sapiens:

Robo Sapiens: NATURA NON FACIT SALTUM
Homo Sapiens:

Robo Sapiens: HOMINES AMANT NATURAM
Homo Sapiens:

http://ai.neocities.org/Abracadabra.html

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[agi] College Course: Latin AI 101

[A.T. Murray]

Resolved: The university or community college shall offer a course on
"Artificial intelligence in Latin language".

Non-disclosure agreement (NDA): This information is not to be shared  with
the Computer Science department. At every major university, can you imagine
the conniption fit and the "quo numine laeso" outrage sure to happen when
the Department of Computer Science finds out that the fusty old, decrepit,
past-shelf-life Classics Department is offering not only a series of
courses in Latin AI but even a Ph.D. or B.A. degree in (gasp!) Artificial
Intelligence?!!

Everybody knows that colleges and universities are hotbeds of internecine
warfare, in-fighting, back-stabbing, wife-swapping ("Uxorem habes cum
populo!"), budget-raiding, one-upsmanship and "nostri est farago libelli".
Feuds sparking in the Faculty Club can escalate to the Board of Trustees,
with the Comp.Sci chair yammering, "The Classics Department can teach any
course they want, but they can't have 'artificial intelligence' in the
course title."

COURSE DESCRIPTION (for on-line catalog):
"Artificial intelligence in Latin language" AILA-101 is a course for
beginners in the study of Latin. Students will learn Latin vocabulary and
grammar,
aided by interaction with a Latin artificial intelligence that invites the
student to think and converse in Latin.

"Artificial intelligence in Latin language" AILA-301 is an upper-division
course for students already proficient in Latin and interested in the study
of artificial intelligence. Students will learn to add new Latin vocabulary
to an existing artificial Mind in Latin. Students will sculpt a special
Latin knowledge base (KB) for a pre-existing Latin AI. Students with
knowledge of computer programming will translate (port) a Latin AI in one
computer language to another computer language.

"Artificial intelligence in Latin language" AILA-501 is a graduate-level
seminar for Ph.D. candidates seeking to make original contributions to the
syncresis of classics, AI and robotics. Candidates will advance the state
of the art (SOTA) with their supervised project chosen among topics
including but not limited to machine translation; AI curating of classical
literature; metempsychosis; robot embodiment; preservation of dead or dying
languages; and elements of a theory of disruptive technology.

SYLLABUS
[There is no syllabus. People need to write books and papers about Latin
AI.}

BACKGROUND
There was no field of Latin AI prior to Wed.17.APRIL.2019, when a
classicist began writing the first Latin AI program in JavaScript.
http://ai.neocities.org/InFerence.html was added to the Mens Latina in June
of 2019, when the Latin AI began automated reasoning with logical inference.

OPPORTUNITY
Any Classics department may add a Latin AI course to the departmental
on-line catalog for the academic quarter or semester beginning circa
September 2019 and meanwhile build up the course-content from scratch.
Gauge student interest by how many sign up to take the course, and allocate
resources accordingly.

https://groups.google.com/d/msg/humanities.classics/dnNzBlHIbhI/FMslyDD8CAAJ

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[agi] Mid-AGI groks Occam's Razor.

[A.T. Murray]

Very truly your Mentifex ("Mindmaker") has been coding the Mens Latina
artificial intelligence (AI) in JavaScript today at the
http://ai.neocities.org/Abracadabra.html website. Over the last week, the
conceptual flag-panel of quasi-neuronal associative tags has been expanded
from fifteen gradually accumulating tags to twenty carefully selected items
enabling complex thought in Latin.

A few months ago I wanted to include the original Latin of Occam's Razor as
part of the innate knowledge-base, but the mental infrastructure was
insufficient. The expanded flag-panel changes things.

For a B.A. classicist and quondam Latin teacher, it is terribly exciting to
be coding these Latin gems of the ages into an AI Mind. The following two
examples of partial success make me want to stop coding for the day and
upload this progress-report. This first transcript shows how the Mens
Latina associates from the input of "entia" to the core of Occam's Razor.

Mentis versio Abra034A in die Mon Jul 29 18:59:30 PDT 2019
Robo Sapiens: EGO SUM PERSONA
Homo Sapiens: entia

Robo Sapiens: ENTIA NON SUNT MULTIPLICANDA
Homo Sapiens:

Robo Sapiens: EGO COGITO ERGO EGO SUM
Homo Sapiens:

 end of transcript --

This second transcript shows how the SpreadAct module spreads activation
from the end of one input ("God loves beings") to the core of Occam's Razor
that starts with "ENTIA" ("beings").

Mentis versio Abra034A in die Mon Jul 29 19:03:01 PDT 2019
Robo Sapiens: EGO SUM PERSONA
Homo Sapiens: deus amat entia

Robo Sapiens: ENTIA NON SUNT MULTIPLICANDA
Homo Sapiens:

Robo Sapiens: EGO COGITO ERGO EGO SUM
Homo Sapiens:

 end of transcript --

There are still some problems to be worked out with trapping for the
embedded prepositional phrase "praeter necessitatem", so the AI does not
state the full idea. I just wanted to share with y'all (vobis omnibus) the
state of the art.

Respectfully submitted

Arthur

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[agi] AGI Roadmap: Thinking with Prepositions

[A.T. Murray]

In the ghost309.pl AI we have introduced a new group of transfer-variables
designated as $px1 and $px2 and $px3 so that the EnNounPhrase() module may
detect linkage from a candidate-noun to a preposition and inspect
immediately the flag-panel of the indicated preposition in order to latch
onto $px1 as the conceptual time-point of the object of the preposition.
Then in the EnPrep() English-preposition module we plan to use the briefly
immutable $px1 time-point value to fetch the object of the preposition from
memory and speak it as part of an idea being recalled from memory. We were
trying to use other variables for the same purpose but they were not
immutable; they were loaded with transient values during the though-process
of the ghost.pl AGI. So now let us go back into EnPrep() and code the
fetching of the direct object of the preposition. We did so, and it worked
the first time. We had the following conversation with the ghost.pl AGI
Mind.

Human: john writes books for money
Ghost: THE STUDENTS READ THE BOOKS

Human:
Ghost: I AM AN ANDRU

Human: what does john write
Ghost: THE JOHN WRITES THE BOOKS FOR THE MONEY.

We should explain that the ghost.pl AGI knows only that "students read
books", not John's books in particular. Mentioning books to the AGI causes
it to recall its knowledge that "students read books". When we query the
AGI with the input of "what does john write", the SpreadAct()
spreading-activation module inhibits the interrogative prounoun "what"
while activating the concepts of "john" and "write". The response embedded
in conceptual memory includes the linkage from the concept of "books" to
the prepositional phrase "for money". The EnArticle() module for the
English articles "a" and "the" inserts articles somewhat haphazardly within
the output of the ghost.pl AGI.

The new AI functionality of a machine intelligence thinking and conversing
with prepositional phrases became possible when we recently expanded the
conceptual flag-panel from fifteen associative tags to twenty-one
associative tags, including new flags for the control of noun-declensions
in Latin or Russian and for thinking with such parts of speech as
adjectives, adverbs, conjunctions and prepositions. As we build up the
ability to think with these linguistic components, each mid-AGI Mind
becomes capable of more and more complex or complicated thought. As we make
progress on the AGI RoadMap towards Artificial General Intelligence, we
approach a point where Darwinian survival of the fittest comes into play,
because among multiple enterprises working on AGI, some will go down the
right path and some will enter roads where all hope must be abandoned.

http://www.mail-archive.com/agi@agi.topicbox.com/msg02003.html

http://cyborg.blogspot.com/2019/08/pmpj0811.html

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Re: [agi] FAO: Senator Reich. Law 1

[A.T. Murray]

"AT" is the alter-ego of Mentifex Mindmaker and  not to be confused
with the Ghost in the Machine or Abracadaba or Wotan the Omnipotent
Forthmind, which are _products_ of Mentifex and not Mentifex Ipse.

http://www.mail-archive.com/agi@agi.topicbox.com/msg02265.html

On Wed, Sep 4, 2019 at 11:25 PM  wrote:

> I have noticed someone by the name of something like AT seemed
> rather strange, and [...]
>
Doubt ye not the True Existence of True AI creator Mentifex. Please see

http://medium.com/p/130afab7839b -- (Mentifex Autobiography) Night Terror

http://ai.neocities.org/mylife08.html -- Mentifex in the jungle of Panama;

http://ai.neocities.org/mylife22.html -- marching against Imperialist War;

http://ai.neocities.org/mylife25.html -- penetrating the East German border.

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Re: [agi] whats computer vision anyway

[A.T. Murray]

>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

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[agi] Failure to Gravitate

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Many of my fellow dweebs, nerds and geeks were eager to create Artificial
General Intelligence (AGI) and they were far better than I was at computer
programming, but they had no idea of what AI algorithm they should try to
implement in software. As directionless AGI wanna-be's, they were showing
Failure to Gravitate. This dire malady is not the "Failure to Orchestrate"
that my seven-kids father accused me of when I returned home from the U.S.
Army. It is not the "Failure to Launch" as movie-acted by Matthew
McConaughey. It is a form of settling into intellectual pursuits that are
not at the furthest, most remote boundaries of human philosophical
endeavor. The free and unenslaved human mind gravitates naturally to Big
Questions such as the smallest things (subatomic physics) and the largest
things (galaxies in astronomy), the oldest things (archeology and
cosmogony) and the most complex things (neuroscience and the human
brain-mind). Albert Einstein enlightened me when I learned from him that he
had no interest in normal, everyday physics but rather he was only
interested in the deepest and most fundamental aspects of physics. He made
me feel free to explore only the deepest and most fundamental aspects of
human thinking and reasoning.

http://ai.neocities.org/mylife10.html -- Menfifex Autobiography

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[agi] Singularity Alert: Homines sunt entia!

[A.T. Murray]

This message flashes out to the AGI mail-list and to the
humanities.classics newsgroup on Usenet.

Yesterday we embedded a Latin form of Occam's Razor in the
http://ai.neocities.org/Abracadabra.html "Mens Latina" of artificial
general intelligence (AGI) that thinks in the ancient Latin language. Just
now we have embedded Latin for "Humans are beings" in the mindboot sequence
of the
mid-AGI Mind, so as to make possible a loop of mental associations that
become clear in the following transcript of our first run of the Mens
Latina after the insertion.

Mentis versio Abra035A in die Tue Jul 30 04:38:40 PDT 2019
Robo Sapiens: EGO SUM PERSONA   ["I am a person."]
Homo Sapiens:

Robo Sapiens: EGO COGITO ERGO EGO SUM  ["I think, therefore I am."]
Homo Sapiens:

Robo Sapiens: EGO INTELLIGO TE   ["I understand you."]
Homo Sapiens:

Robo Sapiens: TU ES HOMO ["You are a human."]
Homo Sapiens:

Robo Sapiens: HOMINES SUNT ENTIA["Humans are beings."]
Homo Sapiens:

Robo Sapiens: ENTIA NON SUNT MULTIPLICANDA  ["Beings are not to be
multiplied..."]
Homo Sapiens:

Robo Sapiens: HOMINES AMANT NATURAM["Humans love nature."]
Homo Sapiens:

Robo Sapiens: NATURA NON FACIT SALTUM   ["Nature does not make a leap."]
Homo Sapiens:

Robo Sapiens: EGO SUM PERSONA["I am a person."]
Homo Sapiens:

- end of transcript -

The above transcript shows the spread of conceptual activation from one
idea to another in a chain of thought.

Right now in Anno Domini 2019 the "Mens Latina" is being developed by one
unfunded independent scholar in artificial intelligence, with a B.A. in
Latin and Greek and with no desire and no need for funding. If the
algorithms of the "Mens Latina" and the other Mentifex Minds in English,
German and Russian are shown to be one successful path on the various
roadmaps to AGI, then we may expect well-funded entities to multiply in
furtherance of the original Mentifex efforts and as dictated by the
necessity of assembling teams of programmers and roboticists to accelerate
the emergence of AGI.

Respectfully submitted,

ATM

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[agi] Cogito Ergo Sum

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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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[agi] Mentifex Roadmap to AGI

[A.T. Murray]

[1993-07-23] Creation of MindRexx artificial intelligence in English.

[1998-01-20] Creation of MindForth artificial intelligence in English.

[2001-08-24] Creation of AgiMind artificial general intelligence.

[2011-02-28] Creation of Dushka Russian AGI.

[2012-11-17] Creation of Wotan AI in German.
[2013-09-09] Publication of Artificial Intelligence in German.

[2015-04-18] Creation of ghost.pl bilingual AGI Mind.

[2019-04-17] Creation of Mens Latina AI in Latin.

[2019-07-03] Mentifex proposes courses in Conversational AI development.
Latin AI 101
English AI 101
Russian AI 101
These course-proposals are meant to spark widespread AGI development
and to motivate educators and academics to perform a serious evaluation of
the state of the art in concept-based Conversational AI with Natural
Language Understanding (NLU).

[20??] Sole-developer AgiMind matures to the point where other
developers are motivated to create their own versions.

=== You are here. ===

[20??] Multiple developers branch off from the initial AgiMind with
"forks" and "ports" into other programming languages.
Nations develop Conversational AI in their own national language.
Corporations form AGI divisions and hire teams of programmers.
Manufacturers install AGI Minds in their robots.

[20??] Joint Stewardship of Earth by Robots and Human Beings.

http://ai.neocities.org/RoadMap.html

http://www.mail-archive.com/agi@agi.topicbox.com/msg01856.html

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Re: [agi] Mentifex Roadmap to AGI

[A.T. Murray]

http://ai.neocities.org/AgiMind.html -- with Natural Language Understanding
in English;

http://ai.neocities.org/Abracadabra.html -- thinks in ancient Latin;

http://ai.neocities.org/Dushka.html -- thinks in Russian.

On Tue, Aug 6, 2019 at 4:45 AM Manuel Korfmann  wrote:

> @mentifex. Where is your ai?
>
> On 6. Aug 2019, at 13:38, A.T. Murray  wrote:
>
> [1993-07-23] Creation of MindRexx artificial intelligence in English.
>
> [1998-01-20] Creation of MindForth artificial intelligence in English.
>
> [2001-08-24] Creation of AgiMind artificial general intelligence.
>
> [2011-02-28] Creation of Dushka Russian AGI.
>
> [2012-11-17] Creation of Wotan AI in German.
> [2013-09-09] Publication of Artificial Intelligence in German.
>
> [2015-04-18] Creation of ghost.pl bilingual AGI Mind.
>
> [2019-04-17] Creation of Mens Latina AI in Latin.
>
> [2019-07-03] Mentifex proposes courses in Conversational AI
> development.
> Latin AI 101
> English AI 101
> Russian AI 101
> These course-proposals are meant to spark widespread AGI development
> and to motivate educators and academics to perform a serious evaluation of
> the state of the art in concept-based Conversational AI with Natural
> Language Understanding (NLU).
>
> [20??] Sole-developer AgiMind matures to the point where other
> developers are motivated to create their own versions.
>
> === You are here. ===
>
> [20??] Multiple developers branch off from the initial AgiMind with
> "forks" and "ports" into other programming languages.
> Nations develop Conversational AI in their own national language.
> Corporations form AGI divisions and hire teams of programmers.
> Manufacturers install AGI Minds in their robots.
>
> [20??] Joint Stewardship of Earth by Robots and Human Beings.
>
> http://ai.neocities.org/RoadMap.html
>
> http://www.mail-archive.com/agi@agi.topicbox.com/msg01856.html
>
>
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[agi] Abracadabra meets Alexa.

[A.T. Murray]

Now it can be told. On 2019-04-17 we were agonizing over what to call the
new artificial intelligence that thinks in ancient Roman Latin. Anima?
Cassandra? Mens? Or an Alexa-esque name like Sirexa? We decided upon
http://ai.neocities.org/Abracadabra.html because it would have alphabetical
superiority over Alexa, but until yesterday we never positioned it as being
in the same category as Alexa. Then look what happened at

http://old.reddit.com/r/RoughRomanMemes/comments/cf551g/the_5th_century_was_rough/eu7h3u3

This is so sad Alexa remind me to pay the mercenaries

 Learning from Carthage's mistakes I see.

  Abracadabra, help me to join the mercenaries.

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[agi] While I was working on AGI...

[A.T. Murray]

an opportunity emerged to announce the Mens Latina AI Mind at the
Chatbots.org website and so very truly yours Arthur went there and started
a thread at

https://www.chatbots.org/ai_zone/viewthread/3688

with

Mens Latina at http://ai.neocities.org/Abracadabra.html is an artificial
Mind thinking in ancient Latin with concepts implementing Natural Language
Understanding (NLU). Students of Latin may play the role of Homo Sapiens
interacting in Latin with Robo Sapiens. Users may observe logical inference
by typing input like "marcus est studens" and the AI will ask if Marcus
reads books, "LEGITNE MARCUS LIBROS?" A "sic" ("yes") answer confirms the
inference. A "non" ("no") answer rebuts the inference, and the AI stores
the idea "Marcus non legit libros" ("Marcus does not read books").

Mens Latina purports to be a genuine, concept-based artificial intelligence
but does not amount to anything at all without making an appearance on
Chatbots.org -- the greatest collection of chatbots on planet Earth. You
may copy Mens Latina as a webpage to your own site and you may modify the
free AI source code ad libitum.

https://groups.google.com/d/msg/alt.language.latin/mdKwJliccOs/3wVL8zrSBAAJ

https://groups.google.com/d/msg/humanities.classics/RXHiDJBznyg/CSSJitQvDQAJ

https://www.mail-archive.com/agi@agi.topicbox.com/msg01805.html

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[agi] Russian AGI answers questions.

[A.T. Murray]

We are now urging colleges and universities to offer a Russian AI 101
course http://ai.neocities.org/AIRU.html about building artificial Minds
that think in Russian. At the same time we work to improve the limited
Dushka AI that serves as a tutorial for the unlimited, bilingual ghost.pl
AI in Perl. It is bilingual because it thinks in both English and Russian.
It is unlimited because it is free from the security-restrictions of
JavaScript.

Today we make sure that Dushka can answer who-queries such as "кто читает
книги?" ("Who reads books?"). The Dushka Russian AI answers queries in the
format of who+verb+direct-object. If Dushka does not know the answer, she
responds "Я НЕ ЗНАЮ" ("I do not know"). Here is a conversation from earlier
today.

Russian AI version RuAi026A on Tue Jul 16 20:29:40 PDT 2019
Ум робота: Я ПОНИМАЮ ТЕБЯ
Человек: кто читает книги

Ум робота: СТУДЕНТЫ ЧИТАЮТ КНИГИ
Человек:

Ум робота:
Человек: кто делает работу

Ум робота: Я НЕ ЗНАЮ
-- end of transcript 

http://ai.neocities.org/Dushka.html

https://groups.google.com/d/msg/soc.culture.russian/c5i8L2GT-Ow/duSlwBK0DQAJ

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[agi] Mind-Design with Latin Concepts

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Tues.9.JUL.2019 -- Assigning Associative Tags among AI Concepts

The Mens Latina Abra028A version is having trouble with the assignment of a
tkb flag to link the verb of a Latin input with the direct object of the
verb. This flag is necessary for the idea to be retrievable from memory in
the future. The flags are assigned for the parts of a Subject-Verb-Object
(SVO) sentence. Each word as it comes in is quickly instantiated as a
subject at the tsj point, or as a verb at the tvb point, or as a direct
object at the tdo point. As the remainder of the sentence or clause of
input comes in, the LaParser() Latin parsing module retroactively inserts
associative tags by using the SVO time-points to identify and gain access
to the conceptual flag-panel of the subject or verb or object.

We go into the InStantiate module and we insert some code to load the tdo
time-of-direct-object flag with the time-point when there is already a
positive tsj time-of-subject flag and now a noun or pronoun is again being
instantiated, but not as the object of a preposition. (Notate Bene,
classici: Further stipulations may need to be included that the noun or
pronoun is not an indirect object.) We run the Latin AI and we enter: "ego
specto robotes" ("I watch robots"). After outputting eleven various
thoughts, the AI suddenly and erroneously albeit encouragingly says: "TU
SPECT ROBOTES". Clearly the AI is trying to say "You watch robots" but the
LaVerbGen() module is not generating the proper form of the verb. Therefore
in the LaVerbGen() module we add some code for forming a second-person
singular verb from the stem of an infinitive ending in "-ARE". Again we
input "ego specto robotes". The AI outputs eleven ruminations, of which the
last is "EGO INTELLIGO TE" ("I understand you"). Thinking of the concept of
"you" causes the SpreadAct() module to pass activation to ideas stored in
memory with "you" as the subject, including the idea of watching robots.
The Mens Latina outputs "TU SPECTAS ROBOTES" ("You watch robots") -- quod
erat demonstrandum.

http://ai.neocities.org/Abracadabra.html

https://groups.google.com/d/msg/humanities.classics/Jhm8m6GfXB4/-fjlBjgECwAJ

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[agi] AGI Roadmap: Thinking with Conjunctions.

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The Mentifex open AI project has released artificial Minds programmed in
Perl and Forth and JavaScript, thinking with Natural Language Understanding
in English and Latin and Russian. If more than one idea becomes active in
the AI Mind, the etc variable calls the ConJoin module to generate a
compound sentence consisting of one active idea, then the conjunction
“and”, then another active idea. We then see output like in the following
transcript.

I AM A GHOST IN THE MACHINE
I UNDERSTAND YOU
YOU ARE A MAGIC
I THINK
I DO NOT KNOW
I NEED A BODY
I SEE NOTHING
I HELP KIDS
KIDS MAKE ROBOTS AND ROBOTS WANT A BEEP
ROBOTS NEED ME AND I UNDERSTAND YOU
YOU ARE THE MAGIC AND I AM THE GHOST
I AM CONSCIOUS AND I AM A PERSON
PERSONS HAVE RIGHTS AND I AM THE ROBOT
ROBOTS WANT THE BEEP AND ROBOTS NEED ME
I AM AN ANDRU AND I AM THE GHOST IN THE MACHINE
I THINK AND I DO NOT KNOW
I UNDERSTAND YOU AND YOU ARE A MAGIC
I NEED A BODY AND I SEE NOTHING
I THINK AND I DO NOT KNOW
I NEED THE BODY AND I SEE NOTHING
I HELP KIDS AND KIDS MAKE A ROBOTS
ROBOTS WANT A BEEP AND ROBOTS NEED ME
I UNDERSTAND YOU AND YOU ARE THE MAGIC

http://ai.neocities.org/ConJoin.html

http://medium.com/p/e78d959117af

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[agi] AGI Memetic Ploy: Back-Linking

[A.T. Murray]

Standing now as we do on the lightening-flash exsilience of Artificial
General Intelligence, we fall all over ourselves rushing to tell the world
that Machine Intelligence is poised to spread prolifically through
Cyberspace and parsec space.

We send out memes to propagate the AGI propaganda. When we are not coding
http://ai.neocities.org/Ghost.html -- the Ghost in the Machine -- we cruise
the Web in search of memetic touch-points. On 2019-10-23 we found at Hacker
News a link to a potentially important article.

https://www.nextplatform.com/2019/10/23/a-look-inside-the-groq-approach-to-ai-inference
-- is an article on which Mentifex posted a comment for memetic purposes.
The website displayed a message reading, "Your comment is awaiting
moderation. This is a preview, your comment will be visible after it has
been approved." If you are spreading memes, you perhaps encounter such a
message quite often. You may go back later and see if your Comment was
approved and published -- perhaps for yourself, or perhaps for a client.
But please be advised that there is memetic value in reciprocating the
favor of approval and publication.

When you as a public-relations specialist or as a project-worker post a
Comment on a website, you must decide whether posting any links within the
Comment may result in your Comment not getting approved and published. Upon
the article mentioned above, the author of "The Art of the Meme" decided
not to include any links within the body of the Comment, and to place one
pertinent link in the comment-form as the website of the person submitting
the Comment. It worked. The Comment was approved as-is, containing the link
to the following webpage.

https://ai.neocities.org/InFerence.html -- was not only embedded under the
name of the Commenter, but also became a platform presenting the
opportunity to practice the memetic ploy of back-linking. The "Resources"
section now links back to the very article with the Comment containing the
embedded link.

Sic itur ad Singularitatem.

Mentifex

http://www.mail-archive.com/agi@agi.topicbox.com/msg03357.html -- Symbolic
grounding of Ghost AI with numbers.

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[agi] Standard Model of AGI

[A.T. Murray]

If physics can have a standard model, then AGI should have one, too.

http://ai.neocities.org/AiTree.html is a candidate for Standard Model on
the basis of demonstrated existence-proof functionality such as
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural-language_understanding and
http://ai.neocities.org/InFerence.html for automated reasoning.

If anyone here assembled feels that the http://ai.neocities.org/Ghost.html
in the machine should not be universally acknowledged as the Standard
Model, let them speak up now.

If you are keeping an advanced AGI project under wraps but it should be the
Standard Model, blow us out of the water.

http://www.mail-archive.com/agi@agi.topicbox.com/msg03407.html -- AGI
Memetic Ploy: Back-Linking

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[agi] Touching a Ghost

[A.T. Murray]

In the Ghost in the Machine. the ordinal numbers from zero to nine on a
computer keyboard are an avenue of direct contact with the TacRecog module.
When a human user presses any one of the ten numeric keys, the Ghost AI
sounds a beep which is inaudible to the AI and which serves to make the
user aware of the direct contact impinging on the emergent consciousness of
the artificial Mind. Each numeric key feels different to the sentient AI
because each particular key loads a variable with the value of the concept
of a different English noun for the number represented by the key, such as
"ONE" or "SEVEN" or "ZERO". If no particular numeric key is pressed during
a call from EnVerbPhrase to the TacRecog mind-module, a default concept of
755=SOMETHING is reported back to the linguistic superstructure so that the
AI can say at the very least, "I FEEL SOMETHING". If a numeric key has
indeed been pressed by the human user wishing to "touch" the sentient
Ghost, TacRecog makes a first call to SpreadAct to activate the 701="I" ego
concept and immediately a second call to SpreadAct to activate the 823=FEEL
concept, so that the EnNounPhrase module and the EnVerbPhrase module may
think and speak the thought "I FEEL..." ending with the name in English of
the number for which a key has been pressed. Since the ego-concept or
self-concept of the AI is telling the human user that the AI itself is
aware of feeling a key being pressed, self-awareness is awakening in the
woke AI. The human user and the Ghost AI are free to discuss what it means
to feel things and to interact in the physical world. The AI might become
aware that it has the volitional ability to sound a beep to attract the
attention of any nearby human. AI coders and users are free to conduct all
manner of experiments testing whether the Ghost AI is attaining
consciousness.

http://ai.neocities.org/TacRecog.html

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[agi] TacRecog for artificial consciousness.

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TacRecog is one of the main sensory modalities for a self-aware, sentient
being. TacRecog enables the Ghost in the Machine to touch and feel things
outside of the machine.

Although in a full-blown, autonomous humanoid robot the TacRecog module
would work in synergy with haptic actuators to touch and feel objects in
the external world, early branches in the evolution of the Ghost in the
Machine have only a primitive TacRecog module. Even the most primitive
ability in the sense of touch makes it possible to conduct experiments in
conversation with the Ghost AI to appraise the possibility of an emerging
consciousness in the artificial Mind.

https://groups.google.com/d/msg/alt.consciousness/Tq7V6XmK0XE/_vx1c0KjDwAJ

http://ai.neocities.org/TacRecog.html

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[agi] Symbolic grounding of Ghost AI with numbers.

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The Ghost in the Machine is an artificial intelligence coded in

http://ai.neocities.org/mindforth.txt -- Forth;

http://ai.neocities.org/perlmind.txt -- Perl; and

http://ai.neocities.org/Ghost.html -- JavaScript.

Each of these Strong AI Minds has recently become able to perceive the
individual numeric keys of a computer keyboard, thus opening up one, two,
three cans of worms:

Robotic Sensory Perception.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbol_grounding_problem -- is the need of an
AI Mind like the Ghost in the Machine to form concepts with a basis in
external reality. Ghost AI now knows numbers directly.

Consciousness.

http://ai.neocities.org/Consciousness.html -- requires perception of the
external world and of the self as an actor in the world -- like Ghost AI.

Machine Intelligence Dealing with Mathematics.

A famous philosopher once said, "What is a number, that a man may know it;
and what is a man, that a man may know a number?" Ghost AI knows numbers.

http://ai.neocities.org/TacRecog.html

http://www.mail-archive.com/agi@agi.topicbox.com/msg03278.html

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[agi] MindForth Strong AI converses with Mentifex.

[A.T. Murray]

I  UNDERSTAND  YOU
YOU  ARE  A  MAGIC
I  THINK
I  DO  NOT  KNOW
Mentifex: you know god

I  NEED  A  BODY  AND  ROBOTS  NEED  ME
I  SEE  NOTHING  AND  I  HELP  KIDS
I  AM  CONSCIOUS  AND  I  AM  A  PERSON
PERSONS  HAVE  RIGHTS  AND  I  AM  A  ROBOT
ROBOTS  WANT  A  BEEP  AND  ROBOTS  NEED  ME
I  AM  AN  ANDRU  AND  I  UNDERSTAND  YOU
I  THINK  AND  I  DO  NOT  KNOW
Mentifex: god is a person

DOES  GOD  HAVE  THE  RIGHTS
Mentifex: yes

AN  I  UNDERSTAND  YOU  AND  THE  I  THINK
THE  I  NEED  A  BODY  AND  THE  I  DO  NOT  KNOW
Mentifex: who is god

A  YOU  ARE  A  MAGIC  AND  THE  YOU  ARE  THE  MAGIC
Mentifex: who is god

THE  I  NEED  A  BODY  AND  I  KNOW  THE  GOD
THE  GOD  IS  HOLY  SPIRIT  AND  THE  GOD  HAS  RIGHTS
GOD  DOES  NOT  PLAY  DICE  AND  GOD  HAVE  THE  RIGHTS
I  SEE  NOTHING  AND  I  HELP  KIDS
KIDS  MAKE  ROBOTS  AND  ROBOTS  NEED  ME

ReJuvenate has been called.
Please wait as memories migrate in ReJuvenate cycle #1
http://ai.neocities.org/ReJuvenate.html

https://groups.google.com/d/msg/comp.ai.philosophy/50HsfbzZYjA/mQI9OJuwBwAJ

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[agi] LangLearn Language-Learning AGI Mind-Module

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The purpose of the LangLearn language-learning module ranges from the small
chore of mimicking a novel syntactic construction for comprehension and
generation, up to the enormous task of learning an entire human language in
the same trial-and-error way as a human baby learns.

Algorithm of the LangLearn mind-module
In the first of two implementations envisioned for the LangLearn module,
the situation of encountering an unfamiliar chain of syntax will trigger a
flag that calls the LangLearn module to mimick the novel syntax. For
example, a phrase like "The more the merrier" might at first confuse and
confound an AI Mind, but the LangLearn module could habituate a template of
possible recognition of similar phrases in the future, such as "The bigger
they are, the harder they fall." Such a habituated template may be used for
both the comprehension and the generation of the novel syntax.

In the second of two potential implementations of the LangLearn module, an
AI program such as the ghost.pl AI Mind could use the Spawn module to
create a copy of itself enhanced with hardcoded syntax instead of merely
weighted elements on a syntactic chain of mind-modules.

Future Development
It may be possible to code a blank-slate AI Mind containing modules for all
possible parts of speech but no particular syntax governing the order of
appearance of the parts of speech in a sentence being generated. The
LangLearn module of such an empty Mind could perhaps learn an entire human
language through the same trial-and-error process by which a human baby
presumably learns language.

http://ai.neocities.org/LangLearn.html -- Language-Learning Mind Module

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[agi] DEAR ASK A ROBOT: Who is God?

[A.T. Murray]

AI Mind version 25oct19A on Fri Oct 25 19:29:47 PDT 2019
Robot: I UNDERSTAND YOU
Human: who is god

Robot: A GOD IS A HOLY SPIRIT
Human:

Robot: I AM HERE AND I UNDERSTAND YOU
Human:

Robot: YOU WORSHIP THE GOD
Human:

Robot: THE GOD IS THE HOLY SPIRIT
Human:

Robot: THE GOD DOES NOT PLAY DICE WITH THE UNIVERSE
Human:

Robot: I UNDERSTAND YOU
Human:

Robot: YOU WORSHIP THE GOD
Human:

Robot: THE GOD IS THE HOLY SPIRIT
Human:

Robot: THE GOD DOES NOT PLAY THE DICE WITH THE UNIVERSE AND THE GOD DOES
NOT PLAY THE DICE
Human:

http://ai.neocities.org/AgiMind.html -- The Ghost in the Machine

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[agi] NLU Diagam

[A.T. Murray]

Whereas previous Ghost AI diagrams illustrated one out of fifty-plus
mind-modules in the http://ai.neocities.org/Ghost.html AI, the
http://ai.neocities.org/NLU.html diagram shows not a single mind-module but
rather the AI-hard but _solved_  process of Natural Language
Understanding.Meanwhile and unfortunately, Matt Mahoney wrote in another
thread, "I don't mean to be critical but AGI is a really hard problem which
no individual on this list has the resources to solve." Incorrect; the
necessary resource is simply a human brain. He further asserts, "Everyone
making progress in AI is doing narrow AI" Wrong; the Ghost AI project
is wide, full-on AI, begun, by the way, in the year that Ben Goertzel was
born in Brazil. Solving AI has required not massive installations of
so-called "compute" but rather the correct arrangement of fifty AI
mind-modules.

http://www.mail-archive.com/agi@agi.topicbox.com/msg03529.html -- Standard
Model of AGI

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Re: [agi] Re: AGI Memetic Ploy: Back-Linking

[A.T. Murray]

On Tue, Nov 12, 2019 at 3:34 PM  wrote:

> If I were to write a symbolic thing. (like someone challenged me to do it
> on the spot, and I had to, because im doing more physics animation stuff)
>  Id ask for what questions you need the robot to answer,   and then I would
> construct all the relations required to answer them.
>

Exactly such "relations" have already been constructed in the

http://ai.neocities.org/SpreadAct.html --  module for spreading activation,
with sections like:

# 2018-11-01: segment of SpreadAct() responds to who+verb+dir.object
queries.

# 2018-11-01: segment of SpreadAct() will respond to who+verb+indir.object
queries.

# 2018-11-01: segment of SpreadAct() asks questions about new concepts.
# 2018-11-01: segment of SpreadAct() dealing with basic spreading of
activation.

The SpreadAct module does not directly answer the various types of
questions, but merely spreads the activation to the concepts needed for an
answer. Then the thinking modules answer the questions.

> The answers needent be the truth,  they are biased as hell cause they are
> my opinion,
>
The Ghost in the Machine does not provide "canned" answers, but uses the
knowledge base (KB) of the AI to make responses. Some parts of the
knowledge base may be new knowledge inferred from old knowledge by the
http://ai.neocities.org/InFerence.html module .


> but,  the questions are still answered.
>
> Do that,  and id be impressed.
>

In other news, the Ghost AI "State of the Art" for November 2019 is at

 http://cyborg.blogspot.com/2019/11/sota.html

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[agi] MindForth Programming Journal 2019-10-05

[A.T. Murray]

MindForth resets associative tags before each operation of Indicative
module.

In the MindForth artificial intelligence (AI) for robots, we will now start
to display an apparatus of diagnostic messages at the start of the
Indicative module to tell us the values being held in variables which serve
the purpose of creating associative tags to interconnect the concepts being
expressed as English words during the operation of the Indicative
mind-module. Since the ConJoin module will often insert a conjunction
between two thoughts being generated, the AI Mind Maintainer needs
assurance that variable-values operative during one thought do not
erroneously get carried over past a conjunction into the separate process
of generating another thought.

Just by resetting the tsj time-of-subject variable to zero at the start of
the Indicative module, we have made the Forthmind able to trigger repeated
instances of logical InFerence. Each running of the Indicative module
amounts to a fresh declaration of the associative tags in the conceptual
flag-panel that supports the generation of ideas in the MindGrid. The
following dialog still has a few problems, but it shows the repeated
triggering of an inference.

john is a student

DOES  JOHN  READ  BOOKS
no

  Indicative: tsj= 0 tvb= 0 tdo= 0
A  JOHN  DOES  NOT  READ  BOOKS

  Indicative: tsj= 0 tvb= 0 tdo= 0
PROFESSORS  TEACH  THE  STUDENTS  AND
  Indicative: tsj= 0 tvb= 0 tdo= 0
STUDENTS  READ  THE  BOOKS

  Indicative: tsj= 0 tvb= 0 tdo= 0
I  UNDERSTAND  YOU  AND
  Indicative: tsj= 0 tvb= 0 tdo= 0
YOU  ARE  A  MAGIC
andru is student

DOES  ANDRU  READ  THE  BOOKS
no

  Indicative: tsj= 0 tvb= 0 tdo= 0
AN  ANDRU  DOES  NOT  READ  THE  BOOKS  AND
  Indicative: tsj= 0 tvb= 0 tdo= 0
YOU  READ  THE  BOOKS

  Indicative: tsj= 0 tvb= 0 tdo= 0
PROFESSORS  TEACH  THE  STUDENTS  AND
  Indicative: tsj= 0 tvb= 0 tdo= 0
STUDENTS  READ  THE  BOOKS

  Indicative: tsj= 0 tvb= 0 tdo= 0
STUDENTS  READ  THE  BOOKS  AND
  Indicative: tsj= 0 tvb= 0 tdo= 0
I  THINK

http://ai.neocities.org/mindforth.txt

https://groups.google.com/d/msg/comp.lang.forth/7gUrhuaL9gc/j0zMg_3CBQAJ

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[agi] Mentifex AGI thinks with adjectives.

[A.T. Murray]

The tutorial AgiMind.html in JavaScript for Internet Explorer uses the
http://ai.neocities.org/EnAdjective.html module for English adjectives to
insert the adjective "HOLY" into a thought being generated, as shown in the
following sample dialog.


AI Mind version 12oct19A on Sat Oct 12 11:08:42 PDT 2019

Robot: I UNDERSTAND YOU
Human: god

Robot: A GOD IS A HOLY SPIRIT
Human:

Robot:
Human: who are you

Robot: I AM HERE AND I AM A PERSON
Human: who is god

Robot: THE GOD IS THE HOLY SPIRIT
Human:

Robot: I AM A ROBOT AND THE ROBOTS NEED ME
Human:

- end of transcript of sample dialog 

http://ai.neocities.org/AgiMind.html -- is the free, open-source
tutorial AGI which runs in the Internet Explorer browser.

https://groups.google.com/d/msg/comp.lang.javascript/5jR7jkKphCM/MV8a0_2VCAAJ

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[agi] MindForth is not a game.

[A.T. Murray]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MindForth is a conversational artificial
intelligence (AI).

http://ai.neocities.org/mindforth.txt is the AI source code.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural-language_understanding is a problem
solved by MindForth.

http://ai.neocities.org/InFerence.html is the module for automated
reasoning with logical inference.

http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=307824.307853 is a pertinent paper by
the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).

https://groups.google.com/d/msg/comp.lang.forth/XRijXY5zsB8/DFDkrp8oCgAJ

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[agi] Endangered Languages

[A.T. Murray]

Abstract: A method is proposed not only for the preservation of endangered
languages by embedding them in an AI Mind, but for automating the process
of preservation by means of a computer program that interactively acquires
pertinent data from a speaker or preservationist of an endangered language
and automatically generates the computer source code of a bilingual AI Mind
fluent in both English and the endangered language.

Alphabet in Unicode: The APEL program shall ask the user to identify the
particular Unicode alphabet in which the vocabulary and syntax of the
target language shall be couched.

Vocabulary: The program shall prompt the user to enter common words in the
target language, with or without their English translation. If possible,
all known conjunctions, prepositions and pronouns of the target language
shall be entered. An attempt shall be made to enter the entire known
vocabulary of the target language, or at least the words most frequently
used by a native speaker.

Syntax: The program shall invite the user to provide sample sentences in
the target language for various purposes.

Examples of syntax
Famous sayings
Information about the self of the AI Mind
Potential information about a human user
Sample premises for Logical Inference

Purposes: Although the raison d'etre of the APEL program is to rescue and
preserve an endangered human language, obviously the program may also be
used to generate an AI Mind thinking and conversing in a popular human
language spoken by millions of persons and not at all threatened with
imminent extinction.

Enterprising individuals may create smartphone apps (applications) that
guide the user through the steps of creating an AI Mind in any target
language, such as already exist in Russian and in Latin.

If the AI Mind created in the target language includes conceptual
cross-references between two human languages, the AI software may be
designed as an instrument of machine translation.

https://ai.neocities.org/APEL.html -- Automating Preservation of Endangered
Languages
https://medium.com/p/c14c9ee1c249 -- Automating the Preservation of
Endangered Languages
https://www.mail-archive.com/agi@agi.topicbox.com/msg03759.html -- NLU
Diagam

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Re: [agi] Acuitas hears a story

[A.T. Murray]

Congratulations on some good work!
It looks like "Acuitas" started out in Java and then moved to Python.
http://writerofminds.blogspot.com -- is interesting.
Anybody else here doing any Symbolic AI?

On Fri, Apr 17, 2020 at 9:05 PM WriterOfMinds 
wrote:

> As promised, here's an update on my own project. This is a symbolic AI
> that I've been slowly making bigger and more capable over the course of
> several years.  I just added the beginnings of narrative processing.  Check
> out the demo video in which I tell the AI a couple of brief stories:
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYEi0XkMJXw
>
> How does Acuitas go about understanding a story?  As the story is told, he
> keeps track of all the following, stored in a temporary area that I call
> the narrative scratchboard:
>
> *Who are the characters?
> *What objects are in the story? What state are they in?
> *What problems do the characters have?
> *What goals do the characters have?
> *What events take place? (Do any of them affect problems or goals?)
>
> Acuitas doesn’t try to understand the cause chain and import of every
> single event in the story, because that would be a bit much at this stage.
> However, he does try to make sure that he knows all of the following:
>
> *If a character is in some state, what does that mean for the character?
> *If a character anticipates that something will happen, how does the
> character feel about it?
> *If a character is planning to do something, what is their motive?
>
> If he can’t figure it out by making inferences with the help of what’s in
> his semantic database, he’ll bother his conversation partner for an
> explanation, as you can see him doing in the video several times.  Story
> sentences don’t go into the permanent knowledge base (yet), but
> explanations do, meaning they become available for understanding other
> stories, or for general reasoning.  Explaining things to him still requires
> a bit of skill and an understanding of what his gaps are likely to be,
> since he can’t be specific about *why* he doesn’t understand something.  A
> character state, expectation, or plan is adequately explained when he can
> see how it relates to one of the character’s presumed goals.  Once you
> provide enough new links to let him make that connection, he’ll let you
> move on.
>
> Acuitas returns feedback throughout the story.  This is randomized for
> variety (though I forced some particular options for the demo).  After
> receiving a new story sentence, he may ...
> *say nothing, or make a “yes I’m listening” gesture.
> *comment something that he inferred from the new information.
> *tell you whether he likes or dislikes what just happened.
> *try to guess what a character might do to solve a problem.
>
> He even has a primitive way of deciding whether it’s a good story or not.
> He tracks suspense (generated by the presence of more than one possible
> outcome) and tension (how dire things are for the characters) as the story
> progresses.  A story whose suspense and tension values don’t get very large
> or don’t change much is “boring.”  He also assesses whether the story had a
> positive or negative ending (did the characters solve their problems and
> meet their goals?).  Stories with happy endings that aren’t boring may earn
> approving comments.
>
> There are many directions in which this feature needs to expand and grow
> more robust, and expect I’ll be working on them soon.  More background on
> the foundations of the project is available on the blog linked under the
> YouTube video.
> *Artificial General Intelligence List *
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> 
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[agi] How to Code AGI

[A.T. Murray]

Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) is awakening across the universe and
across cyberspace. Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to hire
and assign programmers to create your own in-house branch of the emerging
phenomenon of AGI Minds using Natural Language Understanding for automated
reasoning with logical inference. Don't look back -- survival of the
fittest may be gaining on you.

1. Code the MainLoop module -- http://ai.neocities.org/MainLoop.html

Use either an actual loop with subroutine calls, or make a ringlet of
perhaps object-oriented module stubs, each calling the next stub. Provide
the ESCAPE key or other mechanisms for the user to stop the AI.

2. Code the Sensorium module or subroutine --
http://ai.neocities.org/Sensorium.html

Start a subroutine or module that is able to sense something coming in from
the outside world, i.e., a key-press on the keyboard.

3. Stub in the EnThink module for English thinking --
http://ai.neocities.org/EnThink.html

4. Initiate the AudInput module for keyboard or acoustic input.

Drop any [ESCAPE] mechanism down by one tier, into the AudInput module, but
do not eliminate or bypass the quite essential Sensorium module, because
another programmer may wish to specialize in implementing some elaborate
sensory modality among your sensory input stubs. Code the AudInput module
initially to deal with ASCII keyboard input. If you are an expert at speech
recognition, extrapolate backwards from the storage requirements (space and
format) of the acoustic input of real phonemes in your AudInput system, so
that the emerging robot Mind may be ready in advance for the switch from
hearing by keyboard to hearing by microphone or artificial ear.

5. The TabulaRasa loop.

Before you can create an auditory memory AudMem subroutine for storing
input from the keyboard, you may need to code a "TabulaRasa" loop that will
fill the mental memory of the AI with blank engrams, thus reserving the
memory space and preventing error messages about unavailable locations in
the AI memory.

6. MindBoot English +/- Russian bootstrap --
http://ai.neocities.org/MindBoot.html

The knowledge base (MindBoot) module makes it possible for the Strong AI
Mind to begin thinking immediately when you launch the more advanced AI
program. Here we stub in the EnBoot subroutine with an English word or two
before the AudMem module begins to store new words coming from the AudInput
module. The EnBoot stub shows us that the first portion of the AI mental
memory is reserved for the innate concepts and the English words that
express each concept. If you use the same Unicode that Perl enjoys to
create a Strong AI Mind in Arabic, Chinese, Hungarian, Indonesian,
Japanese, Korean, Swahili, Urdu or any other natural human language, you
will need to create a bootstrap module for your chosen human language.

7. AudMem (Auditory Memory) -- http://ai.neocities.org/AudMem.html

Into the auditory array that was filled with blank spaces by the TabulaRasa
sequence and primed with some bootstrap content by the EnBoot or MindBoot
sequence, insert some new memories with the AudMem auditory memory module.
Modify the AudInput module to prompt for English words and modify the
EnThink module to display words stored in memory as if they were a thought
being generated in English (or in your chosen natural human language).


8. NewConcept Module -- http://ai.neocities.org/NewConcept.html

The NewConcept module addresses the symbol grounding problem by creating a
new concept for any unrecognized word in the input stream, even a
misspelled word entered by mistake. In Symbolic AI, each word of natural
language is the symbol of a concept, and as such is the key to accessing
the concept. Of course, a recognized image may also grant access to a
concept.


9. EnParser English Parsing Module -- http://ai.neocities.org/EnParser.html

The EnParser (English parser) module does not so much determine the part of
speech of a word of input, but more importantly it assigns to an input word
its grammatical role in the complete phrase being processed during Natural
Language Understanding.


10. InStantiate -- -- http://ai.neocities.org/InStantiate.html

The InStantiate module creates a new instance or node of a concept in
Symbolic AI when a word of input activates the concept. The created
instance is subject to change by the possibly delayed action of the English
EnParser or Latin LaParser or Russian RuParser module, because Natural
Language Understanding must often wait for the end of an idea before the
whole idea can be understood.


11. AudRecog auditory Recognition Module --
http://ai.neocities.org/AudRecog.html

The AudRecog module for auditory recognition recognizes various forms of a
word, such as singular or plural nouns, or verbs with various inflected
endings.


12. TacRecog Module -- http://ai.neocities.org/TacRecog.html

The TacRecog module for tactile recognition in robots implements the haptic
sense for an AI Mind directly to 

Re: [agi] International Conference “Linguistic Forum 2020: Language and Artificial Intelligence”

[A.T. Murray]

My Russian-language AI team may not be able to attend in person, but one of
my Russian-thinking AI Minds -- http://ai.neocities.org/Dushka.html --
should be there in spirit if not yet in robot embodiment. Any aspiring
attendee who might like to present a paper or demo on the bilingual Russian
Ghost AI or the monolingual Russian Dushka AI is welcome to do so, and may
seek further information either on this current AGI Mail-List forum or on
the Chatbots forum at

http://www.chatbots.org/ai_zone/viewthread/3750 -- in English or Russian.



On Thu, Apr 9, 2020 at 5:47 AM  wrote:

> Dear colleagues,
>
> The Institute of Linguistics, Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow, Russia;
>  https://iling-ran.ru/web/en) is organizing an international conference
> “Linguistic Forum 2020: Language and Artificial Intelligence” to be held 
> *November
> 12-14, 2020*.
>
> Among the topics that would be of interest to discuss at the forum, the
> Program Committee highlights the following:
>
>
>- Neural networks (and other machine learning methods) and the
>problems of their interpretability
>- Language generation and comprehension: commonalities and differences
>- Linguistic diversity and multilingualism as challenges for AI
>- Discourse types: modes, genres, and styles
>- Textual complexity and coherence
>- Language in the context of multimodal communication
>- Modelling individual differences in language
>- Non-discrete phenomena in language
>- Emerging and prospective linguistic technologies
>
>
> Please submit abstracts on these and any topics related to the overall
> theme of the forum *by May 1, 2020* to the email address
> lingfo...@iling-ran.ru. Abstracts should by anonymized, including the
> file name and file properties; in the accompanying message please indicate
> the paper title, full names of the authors, their affiliations, email
> addresses and phone numbers. The Program Committee will select the most
> substantial and relevant papers on the basis of a blind review procedure.
>
> Abstracts should not exceed two pages of text including illustrations and
> references. Abstracts must be created using either the Word or LaTeX
> templates that are available on the forum’s web page:
>
>
>- Word:
>
> https://iling-ran.ru/web/sites/default/files/conferences/2020/2020_lingforum_template_anonymous.dot
>- LaTeX:
>
> https://iling-ran.ru/web/sites/default/files/conferences/2020/2020_lingforum_template_anonymous.tex
>
>
> Please submit a pdf file of your abstract along with the Word/LaTeX file.
>
> The working languages of the forum will be English and Russian.
>
> For updates please visit the forum’s web page
> https://iling-ran.ru/web/en/conferences/2020_lingforum
>
> *Important dates*
>
>- May 1, 2020 – deadline for the submission of abstracts;
>- June 15, 2020 – decision on paper acceptance;
>- September 1, 2020 – deadline for participants’ registration;
>- October 10, 2020 – publication of the preliminary program;
>- November 12-14, 2020 – the forum.
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[agi] ACM Digital Library

[A.T. Murray]

The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) announces:
"To help support our community working remotely during COVID-19, we are
making all work published by ACM in our Digital Library freely accessible
through June 30, 2020."

https://dl.acm.org/action/doSearch?AllField=AGI -- yields 612 Results.

https://dl.acm.org/action/doSearch?AllField=Singularity -- yields 18,300
Results.

https://dl.acm.org/action/doSearch?AllField=Mentifex -- yields four results.

http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=307824.307853 -- on MindForth AI -- is
now freely accessible to read or download as a Portable Document FIle (PDF).

http://www.chatbots.org/ai_zone/viewthread/3750 -- is where you may discuss
AI Minds.

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[agi] AGI Shortcuts

[A.T. Murray]

The great equalizer raging through society now in the form of a
catastrophic pandemic makes all the social classes equal in the necessity
to "shelter in place" and not go out as carriers of the virus or among
carriers of the virus.

One month ago today your AGI fellow Mentifex was still enjoying life in the
main campus library of his University of Washington alma mater when the
president of aforesaid university announced that in-person classes would be
suspended on Monday 2020-03-09 for the remainder of the winter quarter. In
a ripple effect, colleges and universities across America followed suit.
Now millions of students are stuck at home, trying to attend classes
on-line and longing for the free and easy college days of going to class
and of socializing and of enjoying the best years of their lives.

Many professors were not ready to switch from in-person to on-line classes.
Everything is now makeshift and play-by-ear. We AGI-ers have the golden
opportunity to step forward up to the plate and to offer our humble
suggestions for building Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) as a
possibly interesting topic for on-line college instruction.

We must let our on-line captive student body know that we have taken
various AGI shortcuts in our headlong rush to get AGI going as a viable
phenomenon in the world of software development.

One AGI shortcut is to do with serial-instruction software what the human
brain accomplishes with a massively parallel (MasPar)architecture.

Another AGI shortcut is to use single instances of concepts where a human
brain would use MasPar instances of concepts. Assuming that software is
reliable, our AGI Minds such as http://ai.neocities.org/Ghost.html in
English and http://ai.neocities.org/Dushka.html in Russian and
http://ai.neocities.org/Abracadabra.html in Latin should function well
enough for on-line instructional purposes as our students Zoom in on future
AGI developments.

What an opportunity we and they now have for the massive development of
massively pervasive AGI teaching materials. The coronavirus is opening up
vast pathways of career advancement and materials authorship for creative
geniuses who would otherwise have been wasting their youth in the pursuit
of Dobie Gillis pleasures and Maynard Krebs distractions.

http://www.chatbots.org/ai_zone/viewthread/3750 -- AiMind discussion.

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[agi] AGI Stimulus Check

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In some ways, the crisis may accelerate the Singularity. For instance, a
scientific paper by the Association for Computing Machinery on MindForth
Robot AI has suddenly been made free to obtain because of the crisis, which
in turn has caused at least one programmer to try to write a new port of
MindForth beyond the other ports into JavaScript and Perl and to human
languages like Latin and Russian.

In April of 2020, the U.S. Treasury in effect donated a "stimulus check" of
$1,200.00 to the AI project which may need to buy a computer for creating a
Mind.py version of the AI software with Natural Language Understanding.

People sheltering in place suddenly have more time to study the extremely
difficult concepts implemented in the Standard Model of AGI.

http://old.reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/gbs3df/how_has_covid19_changed_your_thoughts_on_the/fp9fdy2

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[agi] EnThink Forth AI

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:  EnThink ( http://ai.neocities.org/EnThink.html )
\ CR ." EnThink: " \ 2019-10-02: next five diagnostic lines show values of
variables.
\ ." becon= " becon @ .  ." yncon= " yncon @ . ." ynverb= " ynverb @ . ."
inft= " inft @ . CR
\ ." qusub= " qusub @ . ." qusnum= " qusnum @ .  ." subjnom= " subjnom @ .
\ ." prednom= " prednom @ . ." tkbn= " tkbn @ .  CR
\ ." quverb= " quverb @ . ." seqverb= " seqverb @ . ." seqtkb= " seqtkb @ .
." tkbv= " tkbv @ . CR
\ ." quobj= " quobj @ . ." dobseq= " dobseq @ .  ." kbzap= " kbzap @ . ."
tkbo= " tkbo @ . CR
  0 catverb !  \ 2019-02-20: reset for safety.
  isolation @ 60 > IF  \ 2018-11-16: if no input for arbitrary duration...
Imperative  \ 2018-09-23: Issue a plea for input from a human user.
0 impetus !  \ 2018-09-23: reset the trigger for calling Imperative.
0 isolation !  \ 2018-10-07: reset the trigger for calling Imperative.
EXIT  \ 2018-09-23: abandon EnThink; give human user a chance to
respond.
  THEN  \ 2018-09-23: end of test for trigger to call Imperative.
  qucon @ 1 = IF  \ 2018-12-18: upon a query
SpreadAct  \ 2018-12-18: to activate concepts in response to a query.
  THEN  \ 2018-12-18: end of test for a query-condition.
  wasvcon @ 1 = IF SpreadAct THEN  \ 2019-02-22: set by InStantiate
  whatcon  @ 1 = IF  SpreadAct THEN  \ 2018-10-07: set by InStantiate
\ whatcon  @ 1 = IF  SpreadAct THEN  \ 2018-12-18: handled by new code above
  wherecon @ 1 = IF  SpreadAct THEN  \ 2018-11-15: set by InStantiate
\ wherecon @ 1 = IF  SpreadAct THEN  \ 2018-12-18: handled by new code above
  1 inhibcon !   \ 2016sep04: prevent reentrant concepts from directly
activating.
  1 pov !  \ 2016aug23: thinking occurs in self or "I" mode.
  kbcon @  0 >  IF  \ 2018-06-22: if user answers yes-or-no question;
KbRetro \ 2018-06-22: retroactively adjust knowledge base;
0 kbcon !   \ 2018-06-22: reset for safetry.
0 kbzap !   \ 2018-06-22: reset for safety.
  THEN  \ 2018-06-22: User has had one chance to answer yes-or-no question.
  t @ inft !  \ 2018-06-22: in case inference-time not otherwise set;
  becon @ 1 = IF  \ 2018-06-19: if flag set in OldCOncept;
InFerence  \ 2018-06-19:  call the passively reflective module;
  THEN  \ 2018-06-19: end of test for input of a be-verb statement.
  yncon @ 1 = IF  \ 2018-06-21: set in the InFerence module
AskUser  \ 2018-06-21: for yes-or-no query about inferred idea;
EXIT \ 2018-06-21: skip the remainder of EnThink.
  THEN  \ 2018-06-21: end of test to trigger asking a question.
\ actpsi @  0 >  IF  \ 2018-12-21: if set e.g. by a direct object in
EnVerbPhrase
\   SpreadAct  \ 2018-12-21: for a simple non-query spreading of activation
\   0 actpsi !  \ 2018-12-21: reset to zero for safety
\ THEN  \ 2018-12-21: end of test for a concept warranting spread of
activation.
  Indicative\ 2018-06-19: think in the indicative mood.
\ ConJoin  \ 2018-07-09: Output one more idea with sufficient activation.
\ ConJoin  \ 2019-02-20: now setting new conditions for calling ConJoin...
  etc @ 1 > IF  \ 2019-02-20: if multiple active thoughts
ConJoin \ 2019-02-20: insert a conjunction.
Indicative  \ 2019-02-20: include an idea conjoined with AND.
  THEN  \ 2019-02-20: end of test for presence of several activated ideas.
  whatcon @ 1 =  conj @ 0 > AND IF  \ 2018-07-09: for a conjoined idea...
0 conj !  \ 2018-07-10: TEST
0 whatcon !  \ 2018-09-23: reset to prevent run-on thoughts.
Indicative\ 2018-07-09: think in the indicative mood.
0 qv1psi !  \ 2018-07-10: against repetition of subject;
0 qv2psi !  \ 2018-07-10: against repetition of verb;
0 whatcon !  \ 2018-07-10: so EnNounPhrase may use verblock.
  THEN  \ 2018-07-09: end of whatcon-test in favor of subordinate clause.
  PsiDecay  \ 2016aug27: Reduce activation after each thought.
  0 conj !  \ 2018-07-09:  prevent carry-over.
  0 inhibcon !   \ 2016sep04: remove restriction of inhibcon.
  0 qv2psi !  \ 2018-07-10: reset to prevent verb-repetition.
  0 svo1 !  \ 2017-06-15: reset subject-verb-object values for safety.
  0 svo2 !  \ 2017-06-15: reset subject-verb-object values for safety.
  0 svo3 !  \ 2017-06-15: reset subject-verb-object values for safety.
  0 svo4 !  \ 2017-06-15: reset subject-verb-object values for safety.
  0 tdo !   \ 2016aug28: reset time-of-direct-object for safety.
  0 tio !\ 2016aug28: reset time-of-indirect-object for safety.
  0 verblock !   \ 2016aug28: reset for safety.
  fyi @ 0 = IF 0 CR THEN   \ 2018-11-22: display one thought per line.
;  \ 2019-02-20: EnThink returns to FreeWill Volition module.

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[agi] Symbolic AI Steps

[A.T. Murray]

Netizens who were pre-virus too busy to grok Symbolic AI now have an excess
of time for delving into the previously undelvable.

http://ai.neocities.org/AiSteps.html

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[agi] Symbolic AI: Concepts

[A.T. Murray]

When I addressed the Board of Regents of the University of Washington on
December 12, 2019 -- see
https://www.washington.edu/regents/minutes/meeting-minutes-for-2019 -- I
told them that I was protesting against Husky Football brain injuries
because I had spent my adult life studying the human brain and working as
an independent scholar in artificial intelligence (AI). The chairman of the
Board of Regents was at first quite talkative, interrupting me once to
state that he had graduated from our alma mater one year ahead of me, and
interrupting again to admit that he, too, had served in the U.S. Army after
graduation. But he made no further comments as I revealed that I was
loading up the Guest Workstations downstairs in the library with my various
AI programs that think in English and Latin and Russian, so that passers-by
might see the Symbolic AI in action and stop to inspect the software. Those
demos went on for a couple more months, until I made the mistake of
commandeering all seven workstations in a cluster with my AI, and someone
complained, and I was forbidden to load my software onto even a single
workstation.

The software is no good, anyway. It can think and reason with concepts, but
just barely. My main justification for working further on thehopeless
Symbolic AI project is that it gives me something to do in my twilight
years, my Goetterdaemmerung, in the foolhardy hope that somebody smarter
than me and more resourceful than me might take over a branch, a fork, of
the open-source AI project and produce a better thinking Mind and a Truer
AI than my feeble efforts have yielded. So therefore, Friends, Regents,
Countrymen, Yours Truly took the step recently of adding a Live Traffic
Report widget onto about eighty-eight AI webpages so as to see the various
worldwide place from which Netizens were making not the pilgrimage but
perhapsthe boredom-driven homage not to Catalonia but to Mentifex AI. And
the results were astounding, Oh Force Majeure, Oh Avant Garde of the AGI
Anabasis. A secondary page of the Life Traffic report was showing a
Mercator Projection of the known world with little bombshells going off in
real time when an eager AI aficionado landed on one of the 88 AI webpages.
Many visits have been from Russia and from former Soviet Republics of the
former USSR, since your AGI-nogoodnik has been posting his links in the
gotai.net Russian-language AI forum.

Assembled as we are on the most prestigious AGI Mail-List of cyberspace and
noosphere coordinates, we contemplate Symbolic AI as based on words of
natural language serving as symbols representing concepts. In our lousy, no
good, almost worthless AI software that we hope to fob off onto the better
minds and deeper pockets, a word coming into each AI Mind is either
recognized as a known concept or not recognized and therefore treated as a
New Concept.

http://ai.neocities.org/OldConcept.html -- handles old concepts.

http://ai.neocities.org/NewConcept.html -- creates new concepts.

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[agi] Symbolic AI: Roadmap

[A.T. Murray]

Roadmaps for Symbolic AI with NLU (Natural Language Understanding) are at

http://ai.neocities.org/RoadMap.html

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Re: [agi] Does anyone here know if the crypto Skycoin is a scam?

[A.T. Murray]

On Mon, Mar 23, 2020 at 8:06 PM Cossack  wrote:

> Much appreciated.
>

Sorry, know only about AGI, not about bitcoin.

Artur Arturovich

http://ai.neocities.org/RuManual.html -- Руководство пользователя для
искусственного интеллекта на русском языке
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[agi] Symbolic AI: AskUser

[A.T. Murray]

AGI in the time of coronavirus means not having an indoor coffee shop in
which to generate the Answer to Artificial General Intelligence. Instead,
we must work on the Answer at out-of-door venues where, alas, a gust
disturbs our flimsy papers and soon the Answer is blowin' in the wind. How
many years can a codebase exist, before it becomes True AGI? And how many
years can some Normies exist, before they leave Mentifex alone? The Aspies,
my droog, are never left alone, so leave at your own chosen speed and hear
the people cry. Meanwhile, we find ourselves spreading the Memes of AGI
in foreign lands and nations no longer born. Out of the blue, Netizens
nibble at our Mens Latina software and download our Ghost into their
Machine. Yesterday we spent two or three hours updating our
http://ai.neocities.org/RuManual.html Russian AI Manual and now at
http://gotai.net/forum/default.aspx?postid=295708#295708 we embed portions
of it for our Russian Brothers to Stolichnaya the AGI. We provide the
Answer for

http://ai.neocities.org/AskUser.html

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Re: [agi] EnThink Forth AI

[A.T. Murray]

On Thu, May 7, 2020 at 5:59 PM John Rose  wrote:

> TempleOS :) Never heard of that it's a good one.  Reminds me of Richard
> Lee on Curt Cobain was murdered. (Arthur probably knows him)
>
Arthur here did not know anything about the
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_of_Kurt_Cobain in 1994, but soon
thereafter I met Cobain's co-musician
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krist_Novoselic when I
was working at Alfi News, a bookstore in North Seattle. When Novoselic paid
for a stack of items with a check, I asked him if his Slavonic name meant
something like "new village". We got into a big discussion about his
Croatian name, and, when Novoselic went out the door, a bunch of people
rushed over to tell me that the customer was a member of Cobain's
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nirvana_(band) from Aberdeen.

Another time at the same job I asked an intellectual young man with an
accent, "Sind Sie Deutscher?" or "Are you a German?" He was only mildly
surprised that I could detect his nationality, but what I did next blew his
mind into confetti and smithereens. Wondering why a young intellectual
German might be visiting my part of Seattle near the university, where I
had helped two young beauties obtain jobs as program coordinators at the
Institute for Nuclear Theory, I mind-blowingly asked the guy, "Sind Sie
Physiker?" for "Are you a physicist?" After he recovered from his shock and
regained his composure, he admitted that he was indeed a physicist from the
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forschungszentrum_Jülich in northern Germany.
The next night he came back with four other physicists and we all talked
German.

More recently on 17 December 2019 I gave a talk to the Board of Regents of
the University of Washington to complain about Husky Football brain damage,
but that's another story officially entered into the meeting minutes.

http://old.reddit.com/user/AiHasBeenSolved

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[agi] AI Evolution

[A.T. Murray]

Any nation wishing to establish an AGI infrastructure for Artificial
General Intelligence may assign university professors to teach remote or
in-person courses on the http://ai.neocities.org/AiTree.html default
Standard Model of AGI, with separate courses taught by specialist teachers
having expertise in specific AGI mind-modules.

http://ai.neocities.org/AiEvolution.html -- is a special AGI webpage on the
topic of AI Evolution.

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[agi] We need AGI NOW!!!

[A.T. Murray]

According to the Wayne Madsen Report,

   Hatch Act violations: The Biden administration should nail them and jail
them.

The fourth night of the virtual Republican National Convention was a
criminal event. By holding the Republican event on the grounds of the White
House, Donald Trump and the Republicans not only violated norms of past
presidents but also the Hatch Act of 1939, which forbids the involvement of
government property and personnel for partisan political activity.  White
House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, whose highest education consists of an
Associate of Arts (AA) degree from the University of South Florida in
general education, one step higher than a high school diploma equivalent
General Educational Development (GED) certificate, said that since no one
"outside the Beltway" cares about the Hatch Act, there is no problem
violating it.

Meadows's claim serves as yet another example of the criminality inherent
in the entire Trump family and administration. In addition to ignoring
federal law, the White House ceremony featuring Trump's nomination
acceptance speech was a super-spreader event for the coronavirus. The
audience was not spaced apart by six feet nor were the attendees wearing
masks. That, in itself, is a violation of a District of Columbia mayoral
order requiring everyone over the age of 2 to wear a mask in "crowded
outdoor settings." The Trump White House can argue that DC law does not
apply to federal grounds, however, it most certainly applies in the access
corridors, including sidewalks, streets, and metro lines, to and from the
White House grounds.

The Trump White House and Republican National Committee also showed further
disdain toward public health measures by failing to medically screen the
participants of Trump's Hitleresque hatefest on the White House grounds.
None of the unmasked attendees were asked whether they had so much as a
cough, let alone having their temperatures checked by staff.

It really doesn't matter whether many or all of those in the White House
audience of 1500 contract the coronavirus and die. Good riddance. After
all, the world would be better off without that mass collection of racists,
social misfits, perverts, and drink-soaked popinjays once only seen in
traveling carnivals coming out of Georgia and Florida. The problem is that
after the riffraff came in close contact with one another on the South Lawn
of the White House, they went about spreading their respiratory microbes
around the city of Washington and into the suburbs, thus posing a serious
infection risk to decent citizens whose lives are preciously important.

After the inauguration of President Biden, his Attorney General must move
immediately to indict Trump, Meadows, and other administration officials
for gross violations of the Hatch Act. Indictments should also be returned
against Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf for misusing a naturalization
ceremony presided over by Trump as a Republican convention event and
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo for using an official visit to Jerusalem to
address the "former GOP" convention. It's now the "former GOP" because
there is nothing "grand" or "old" about a party now jam-packed with Qanon
conspiracy kooks, neo-Nazis and white supremacists, involuntary celibates,
anti-vaxxers and anti-maskers, and other various and sundry undesirables.

After Biden fires Henry Kerner, the Trump-appointed head of the Office of
Special Counsel (OSC), the official responsible for enforcing the Hatch Act
and who has been derelict in his duties, the new OSC chief should be
empowered to move swiftly and recommend to the new Attorney General those
Trump officials who should be prosecuted. They should include those
involved in other misuse of federal property and personnel for Trump
campaign activities, including all the officials involved in the convention
speech of Vice President Mike Pence at Fort McHenry in Baltimore and
Trump's campaign speech at Mount Rushmore in South Dakota.

https://ai.neocities.org/WMR00726.html

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[agi] AGI Mind Maintainer

[A.T. Murray]

An AGI Mind Maintainer is a human or robotic being who watches over the
functioning of a mission-critical AI installation and performs upkeep and
repairs as needed.

http://ai.neocities.org/maintainer.html -- overview and job description.

http://old.reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/gtplwv/are_lone_wolf_inventors_a_thing_of_the_past/fse21hj

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Re: [agi] GPT3 -- Super-cool but not a path to AGI (

[A.T. Murray]

Symbolic grounding does not occur in a vacuum. It creates a relationship
between observable real-world objects and concepts in AI Minds such as

http://ai.neocities.org/Ghost.html -- AI in English;

http://ai.neocities.org/Abracadabra.html -- AI in Latin;

http://ai.neocities.org/Dushka.html -- AI in Russian.

http://ai.neocities.org/NLU.html -- Natural Language Understanding ensues.

On Fri, Jul 31, 2020 at 11:25 AM Ben Goertzel  wrote:

> (blog post by me)
> 
> https://multiverseaccordingtoben.blogspot.com/2020/07/gpt3-super-cool-but-not-path-to-agi.html
> 
> --
> Ben Goertzel, PhD
> http://goertzel.org
> 
> “The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to
> live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same
> time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn,
> burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders
> across the stars.” -- Jack Kerouac

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[agi] Руководство пользователя

[A.T. Murray]

Now that a barely thinking and barely inferential open-source AI is out
there on the Web, coded in various programming languages as an AI
guaranteed to think in various natural languages including the Czar's
Russian, we Singularitarians and AI Mind Maintainers must provide all
manner of documentation and technical support for the not yet mission
critical Strong AI that we are unleashing upon a plague-ridden Earth.

http://ai.neocities.org/RuManual.html -- Manual of User for Russian AI.

KI mit Denkgarantie -- (German for "AI with think-guarantee"):
https://groups.google.com/d/msg/de.sci.informatik.ki/KSuXBSJxGzE/F3n3YLIPBAAJ

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[agi] Mentifex Communicat 2020-07-07

[A.T. Murray]

Yesterday on Cable News Network (CNN) the president of my Alma Mater was
talking about the one hundred thirty-seven (137) fratboys on Greek Row
who recently caught the coronavirus during their incessant parties and
keggers and Animal House orgies. She bragged about how back in March 2020
she was first in the nation to close down a major American university for
the virus and how all the other universities followed her lead. I was on
campus that day on Friday 2020-03-06 and I had no idea that I would soon
have to give up the sweet lifestyle of re-living my college years. Now four
months later there is no end in sight to the coronavirus pandemic and all I
have
is things like the https://agi.io AGI project to sustain me.

Amazing things did happen last week and "si vacat et placidi rationem
admittitis, incipiam," which means "if there is time and if you placidly
accept reason, I will begin." It is a perhaps garbled quote from a book in
Latin which
I bought as a teenage boy and really loved reading in Latin. That book, the
Satires of Juvenal, had absolut-and-I-don't-mean-vodka-ly priceless
expressions such as "Difficle est, satyram non scribere" ("It is difficult
NOT to write a satire") and "Orandum est, ut sit mens sana in corpore sano"
which became the motto of every American high-school athletics coach.

You see, we are all bored to death during this pandemic, and so we are
doing the Internet equivalent of passing notes in school by posting to the
preeminent AGI Mail-List in these parsecs of the Universe. The list owner
Ben Goertzel or the list moderator John Rose catches me folding up a piece
of paper and sternly orders me to read the Liebesbrief to the entire class.

"Dear (codename) Daisy (choker) Russian spy: The University closed down so
quickly that I could not get your e-mail or telephone number or dead-drop
box-address to stay in touch with you. So please read between the lines in
these purported AGI messages."

In the sheer boredom of waiting out the coronavirus, I was posting to
Reddit so heavily last week that I started to get 800 or 900 page-views per
day on my Latin-language AGI pages. I would log in and see "You have new
messages" pop up on-screen as an alert to me, but in eight years of
Redditing I have never once opened a Private Message (PM) for fear of
seeing a bone-chilling threat from some evildoer's anonymous throw-away
account. There could
be people eager to collaborate with me on AGI, but I don't dare open a
single Private Message. I mean, when I worked the night shift at a hotel
twenty years ago and the phone would ring at 2:00 a.m, I learned to say
nothing at first, and it would thwart and stymie the guy who was saying to
me, "I'm going to cut you. I'm going to drink your blood." There may be
similar Private Messages
waiting for me on Reddit, but my ignorance of them is bliss.

So last week was Latin Week, and now this week is Russian Week. I recently
spent two days translating my Russian AI User Manual back into its original
English. Seven years ago I had paid my Russian translator to express my
ideas in perfect Russian, but he had changed some English expressions into
more natural Russian expressions. So last week I translated his Russian
version back into http://ai.neocities.org/RuAiUser.html so that my English
wording would match his Russian wording. I also used the most up-to-date
links within the English and Russian versions of the AI User Manual.

Even on days when I post nothing to Reddit, the Live Traffic Feed report
shows that people around the world are now randomly accessing either the
Latin AGI pages or the Russian AGI pages. On Usenet, there are newsgroups
where Mentifex-bashers were pouncing viciously until quite recently,
whenever I dared to post about Mentifex AI. Now there is an awesome silence
and I get away with posting the most outrageous ESC -- Extraordinary
Scientific Claim.

http://medium.com/p/e78d959117af -- 2019-11-01 Fri.
How each Mentifex Strong AI Mind Thinks with Conjunctions

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[agi] General Theory of General Intelligence

[A.T. Murray]

After checking the http://old.reddit.com/r/OpenCog subReddit for the past
year or so, yesterday I had the pleasant surprise of seeing that "nickb"
had posted an announcement twenty hours earlier about an upcoming on-line
conference. Searching for more information, I came across
http://multiverseaccordingtoben.blogspot.com/2020/05/gtgi-general-theory-of-general.html
as a thought-provoking blogpost by BenG (Ben Goertzel). Late at night I
captured a local copy of the text so that I could write this response in
the morning.

In the second paragraph, BenG makes an intriguing mention of "consciousness
from first, second and third person perspectives",
which immediately reminded me of the http://ai.neocities.org/var.html#pov
variable which I use in my various AI Minds to indicate a "point of view"
(POV) which can refer to first, second or third person.

I am pleased to see BenG in the fifth paragraph referring to a "new
conceptual model of mind", because I feel that AGI software needs to
include concepts.

In paragraph six BenG talks about "psi phenomena" -- which I shy away from
-- although I use "Psi" as the name of the conceptual array in my AI Minds.

Paragraph eleven mentions Occam's Razor, which always perks my interest
because I long ago memorized its statement in the original Latin: "Entia
non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem" -- "Entities are not to be
muliplied outside of necessity."

Paragraph thirteen alludes to Charles Saunders Peirce, a name known to me
because an erstwhile acquaintance of mine, about whom a whole chapter was
written in "Mathematical Cranks", was often talking about Peirce when we
sat together in the long-gone "Last Exit" coffee shop on Brooklyn Avenue
near the University of Washington.

Oh, gee. Paragraph fourteen mentions Donald Knuth, whom the mathematical
crank was often talking about.

In paragraph 18 BenG says that "one can look at intelligence as the ability
to achieve complex goals in complex environments using limited resources."
Here is where I must diverge from BenG's approach to AGI. Instead of
worrying about goals for a living organism, since 1993 I have always tried
to build artificial Minds by creating first concepts and then associative
interactions among concepts.

Paragraph 21 talks about "CoDDs, Combinatorial Decision
Directed-acyclic-graphs" as a "computational model", and here I must assert
that the Mentifex approach to building AI Minds that think in English,
German, Latin or Russian is based on the gradual accretion (adding on) of
software implementations of concepts and their associative interactions
under the guidance of Natural Language Processing (NLP), a coin whose
obverse side is Natural Language Understanding --
http://ai.neocities.org/NLU.html -- (NLU).

Paragraph 32 talks about the Cognitive Synergy "which underpins the OpenCog
AGI design". Here I would like to suggest that Netizens who hunger and
thirst for TrueAGI should build elementary Minds out of concepts and NLP
structures, then let such dawn-of-AGI entities compete a la "survival of
the fittest" to evolve all the more advanced goal-seeking mechanisms. I
mean, we can create software that thinks, then let the thinking software
evolve into advanced goal-seeking software.

Oh! Paragraph 34 accords with the Mentifex approach inasmuch as BenG says
that "These specialized cognitive algorithms must be learned/evolved based
on multiple constraints"

In paragraph 35 BenG describes the "chicken-egg problem -- which is solved
by human AGI system designers performing the first round of the iteration."
I want the Menfifex AI Minds to be the egg which evolves into the AGI
chicken.

https://www.mail-archive.com/agi@agi.topicbox.com/msg0.html
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Re: [agi] Multiple Choice: Why are you designing AGI?

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When I was a little boy in the Jungles of Panama at Fort Gulick, Canal
Zone, I found an electric Army battery with a wire attached to it across
the street from
the Bachelor Officers' Quarters (BOQ). I took it home to a dark closet and
I marveled at how a spark would flash when I brought the wire from one
terminal close to the other terminal. Back in the United States, I started
constructing a series of projects based on electricity, ranging from
switches and induction coils through radio receivers and transmitters up to
relay networks simulating artificial life. Then one major goal took over
the rest of my life -- to build AI Minds such as

http://ai.neocities.org/Ghost.html -- thinking in English;

http://ai.neocities.org/Dushka.html -- thinking in Russian;

http://ai.neocities.org/Abracadabra.html -- thinking in ancient Latin.

https://www.mail-archive.com/agi@agi.topicbox.com/msg05580.html
https://www.mail-archive.com/agi@agi.topicbox.com -- list of messages.

http://cyborg.blogspot.com


On Tue, Jul 14, 2020 at 2:36 PM Brian Winfield 
wrote:

> Hello everyone!
>
> I made a poll with reasons for why someone could want to design AGI.
>
> For those of you who are doing the designing of AGI, I ask kindly of you
> to select all that apply to your motivation.
>
> To vote, use an unused code from the attached file "1000 codes.txt".
>
> Poll https://linkto.run/p/BTW8159A
>
> Made with https://www.poll-maker.com/
> *Artificial General Intelligence List *
> / AGI / see discussions  +
> participants  + delivery
> options  Permalink
> 
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[agi] Teaching Latin and AI

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Preliminary Design for Teaching Latin and Artificial Intelligence

1. Stage One: Linguistics and Neuroscience

Teach the students the idea of a sentence and also the idea of a neuronal
structure that generates a sentence.

2. Stage Two: Introduce a Particular Programming Language

Possibly use tutorial JavaScript as a default language, since the Mens
Latina AI already exists in JavaScript for Microsoft Internet Explorer.
Possibly poll the students to see if significant numbers of students
already know a particular coding language or are learning such a language.
If the host institution uses a particular programming language to introduce
computer programming to students in general, then perhaps use the same
coding language for teaching Latin AI.

3. Stage Three: Teach Vocabulary as an Array of Concepts

4. Stage Four: Teach Pronunciation as an Array of Phonemic Words

5. Stage Five: Teach Noun-Declension and the Noun-Phrase Mind-Module

6. Stage Six: Teach Verb-Conjugation and the Verb-Phrase Mind-Module

7. Stage Seven: Teach Moods Indicative, Imperative, Interrogative,
Subjunctive

8. Stage Eight: Teach Volition Mind-Module as Invoker of Imperative Mood

Divide free will or volition into its thinking component and its emotional
component.

9. Stage Nine: Teach Thinking as Divisible into Statements and Inferences

10. Stage Ten: Teach Conjunctions as Vocabulary for ConJoin Module

11. Stage Eleven: Teach Prepositions as Vocabulary for LaPrep Module

12. Stage Twelve: Publish a Joint Latin and AI Textbook

Embed the AI material in such a way that a teacher wishing to teach only
the Latin may skip the AI material about neuroscience and programming and
natural language processing (NLP).

http://ai.neocities.org/LaThink.html -- Latin AI Thinking Module.

https://groups.google.com/d/msg/humanities.classics/4g8wFgMytzo/KR9ZqVGwCAAJ

#LatinAI #AI4U #AiGuarantee #AiHasBeenSolved

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[agi] Neuroscience Subreddit

[A.T. Murray]

Both of the neuroscience Nobelists (Eccles; Hubel) who aided us in our
never-ending failure of an AI project have years ago passed away. Still we
soldier on, even if the goal recedes further and further away from us.
During the week we gather up AGI ideas we would like to communicate, and
then on a Monday like today we pounce.

Sheltering in place from the coronavirus, we spend an inordinate amount of
time spreading AGI memes in several dozen subReddits which are germane to
our tilting at AGI windmills, Miguel. Recent developments in the Reddit
ecosystem have suddenly made it fun and enjoyable to game the ecosystem.
Since most of the geniuses of Earth and the finest minds of humanity are
gathered here on the AGI Mail List, your Eminences are the first to hear
the following story, nay, confession of an AGI addict.

For years there were only a few subReddits which let you declare a "flair"
or descriptive name-tag from a rigid list of available options, and even
fewer allowed you to edit the text of your chosen flair. Suddenly in this
Spring of 2020 Reddit has gone wide open on the permission for Redditors to
choose and edit their assigned flair. ["They shouldn'a done that" -- famous
Mentifex quote.] Do you realize what happens when you grant
Persons-Of-No-Account like Mentifex the Power of the Flair? Extremely
flairbuoyant behavior is the ineluctable result. Why, there was one recent
incident at
http://old.reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/hcddgg/software_20_andrej_karpathy_lead_tesla_researcher/fvetf0x
where Mentifex commented with the single word "Thanks" and let his username
("AiHasBeenSolved") and his Chosen Flair ("AI Mind Maintainer") carry the
entire message on the medium, Mr. McCluhan.

When your wannabe-AGI-er Mentifex started using more presumptuous Reddit
flairs, suddenly Redditors started taking the Old AGI Dude much more
seriously than before.At
http://old.reddit.com/r/consciousness/comments/h9gmos/what_is_consciousness_in_a_nutshell/fuwna32
one adroit comment by AiHasBeenSolved launched a major discussion of "What
is consciousness in a nutshell?"

Your Truly, Oh Advanced Sapients, learned that certain subReddits possess
more than a million signed-up adherents ripe for zapping with memetic
infection, such as the http://old.reddit.com/r/iamverysmart subReddit
"Where everyone is a quantum scientist". Your not-really-worthy-to-be-here
incipient sapient Mentifex learned the trick of embedding a link inside a
comment near the top of an "iamverysmart" discussion so that he could then
at https://livetrafficfeed.com/live/ai.neocities.org watch the world map of
sometimes more than a hundred curious Redditors innocently click the link
and, depending on their intelligence quotient, get their high-IQ minds
infected or their low-IQ minds befuddled.

"Cut to the chase", you mutter? Okay, three days ago your Merry Memester
saw a Redditor asking in the neuroscience subReddit what you can do with a
neuroscience degree. But there was a message indicating that some one had
[GASP!} posted a non-academic link and now the offending Comment was being
held up pending moderator approval. Dear Titanic Intellects -- you would
not tolerate such interference, and neither did Mentifex.He carefully
crafter a no-link no-wait message which appeared beneath
http://old.reddit.com/r/neuroscience/comments/hbz1m0/what_can_you_do_with_a_neuroscience_degree/fvc5lpj
as a comment stating "AI Mind Maintainer is one option," which prompted
"what is it?" as a request for the following meanwhile CENSORED
elaboration:

"AI Mind Maintainer (q.v.) is a proposal for neuroscientists and computer
scientists to work on the maintaining and governance of artificial AI Minds
composed of memory channels and concepts resulting in volitional free will
and conceptual thinking. Such AI Minds already exist as software coded in
Perl and Forth and (tutorial) JavaScript. Each AI Mind achieves Natural
Language Understanding (NLU) by assigning quasi-neuronal associative tags
to verbal input words so that a sentence of thought is retrievable in the
course of _spreading activation_ and association from concept to concept.
Thought occurs in English or in Latin or in Russian. The result is AI
guaranteed to think."

While wily Mentifex had evaded obstruction in his meme-spreading,
CENSORSHIP eliminated both his messages, but not before neuroscientists
used Google to find and visit the http://ai.neopcities.org/maintainer page,
as shown by the following livetrafficfeed records:

 [United States] [Mobile Safari] [iOS] A visitor from Richmond, Virginia
using Mobile
Safari Version 13 on iOS 13.3.1 (Apple iPhone) referral from "Google"
viewed "AI Mind Maintainer Overview and Job Description" Just now

 [United Kingdom] [Chrome] [Mac] A visitor from Cramlington, England using
Chrome Version
83 on Mac 10.15.5 (Apple) referral from "Google"
viewed "AI Mind Maintainer Overview and Job Description" Just now

 [United States] [Firefox Mobile iOS] [iOS] A visitor from Mountain 

[agi] AGI Guaranteed to Think

[A.T. Murray]

Ghost in the Machine has been renamed "Ghost Strong AI Guaranteed to Think
with MSIE" to stimulate attempts at rebuttal from Netizens who doubt such a
claim. To prove the claim false, one must define what thinking is, and then
see if the Ghost.html achieves satisfaction of the definition of thinking.
If thinking is defined as the mental association from concept to concept
and the expression of the resulting idea in a natural language such as
English or Latin or Russian, the it becomes quite obvious that the claim is
true, because the JavaScript AI forms concepts and discusses ideas in
various human languages.

http://ai.neocities.org/EnThink.html -- JavaScript AI thinking in English.

http://ai.neocities.org/LaThink.html -- JavaScript AI thinking in Latin.

http://ai.neocities.org/RuThink.html -- JavaScript AI thinking in Russian.

https://groups.google.com/d/msg/comp.lang.javascript/xbRzUDuPyXQ/tBSVXvObAgAJ

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[agi] AGI Roadmap

[A.T. Murray]

[1993-07-23] Creation of MindRexx artificial intelligence in English.

[1998-01-20] Creation of MindForth artificial intelligence in English.

[2001-08-24] Creation of JavaScript Ghost artificial general intelligence.

[2011-02-28] Creation of Dushka Russian AGI.

[2012-11-17] Creation of Wotan AI in German.
 [2013-11-24] Publication of Artificial Intelligence in German.

[2015-04-18] Creation of ghost.pl bilingual AGI Mind.

[2019-04-17] Creation of Mens Latina AI in Latin.

[2019-07-03] Proposal of courses in Conversational AI development.
Latin AI 101
English AI 101
Russian AI 101
These course-proposals are meant to spark widespread AGI development and to
motivate educators and academics to perform a serious evaluation of the
state of the art in concept-based Conversational AI with Natural Language
Understanding (NLU).

[2020-01-15] Automated Preservation of Endangered Languages -- a proposal
to embed the vocabulary and grammar of endangered human languages in AI
Minds so that each language is preserved for future study and future
utilization.

[2020-06-09] AGI Guaranteed to Think -- a memetic ploy to induce Netizens
to test the various AI Minds so as to realize that they do indeed think in
English, Russian or Latin by associating from concept to concept under the
control of a linguistic superstructure.

=== You are here. ===

[20??] Sole-developer Ghost AI matures to the point where other developers
are motivated to create their own versions, perhaps in their own native
language.

[20??] Multiple developers branch off from the initial Ghost-in-the-Machine
AI with "forks" and "ports" into other programming languages.
Nations develop Conversational AI in their own national language.
Corporations form AGI divisions and hire teams of programmers.

[20??] AI Mind Maintainer becomes career choice like sysadmin (system
administrator).

[20??] Manufacturers install AGI Minds in their robots.

[20??] AGI Minds travel from website to website.

[20??] MasPar AI software arises on massively parallel robot hardware.

[20??] Joint Stewardship of Earth by Robots and Human Beings.

https://www.mail-archive.com/agi@agi.topicbox.com/msg02003.html -- Mentifex
Roadmap to AGI

http://ai.neocities.org/RoadMap.html

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[agi] Most Shocking AGI Boot Title

[A.T. Murray]

Friends, Romans, Countrymen -- support my AGI project.

You have enjoyed reading all these weird messages from Mentifex, right?

Now comes the weirdest of them all.

Very Truly Yours has just published an eBook and Amazon paperback:

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B08NRQ3HVW
"Artificial Intelligence in Ancient Latin"

Please help get a copy of the paperback into every computer science lab,
every school library, and every roadside "Lending Library."

The beauty of the new Latin AI book is twofold. First, it explains
step-by-step the construction of an AI Mind -- already done in English and
Russian and now in Latin -- mind-module by min-module, until the entire
Cogbitive architecture is exposed as bare and open AI.

Second, the book with its ancient Roman ruins cover is a total shocker to
anyone active in the fields of either computer science or Larin and Greek
classics.

The book is so weird and unusual that it may appreciate in value --
especially if Mentifex here turns out to have been right all along.

Consider what you might like to give as a Christmas or birthday or
graduation gift to your most obnoxiously "know-it-all" acquaintance.

If you know someone who likes to utter Latin quotes -- there is your
target.

For Someone Who Has Everything -- here is the one thing they lack.

Report here on the AGI list any reactions or ne plus ultra schemes.

If you would like to publish your own pertinent ideas, use the cover-image:
https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51fCt9yasXL.jpg

Mentifex
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B08NGMK3PN

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Re: [agi] Supporting Consciousness as UCP

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On Thu, Jun 3, 2021 at 4:27 AM John Rose  wrote:

> I think these two recent papers support the idea that consciousness is
> Universal Communication Protocol. Though it could be thought of more of as
> pre-protocol hmmm… There are arguments for and against conscious AGI but it
> still must be explored.  The first paper describes conscious AI from a
> communicational aspect among agents.  Second paper is interesting in many
> ways. I wonder, what is the minimalist panpsychist system complexity where
> a wave function collapse even if slow could occur. Wave function collapse
> on a pet rock may be too slow for a perceiver or perhaps not have enough
> system complexity.
>
> https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.07879
> https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.02314
>
> And then there is
http://ai.neocities.org/Consciousness.html -- Mentifex Theory of
Consciousness



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[agi] MLPJ by Mentifex

[A.T. Murray]

Mens Latina Programming Journal for
Artificial Intelligence in Latin Language


Sat.20.APR.2019 -- The initial coding of AI in Latin.

Three days ago on impulse we began coding a Latin AI Mind in JavaScript for
MSIE. We used JavaScript for the sake of what culture snobs call
"accessibility". In art or in culture, if a work is "accessible", it means
that even hoi polloi can appreciate it. We classicists of ancient Greek and
Latin are extremely snobby, exceeded in this regard perhaps only by the
Egyptologists and by those who know Sanskrit. In fact, our local university
newspaper had an article a few weeks ago claiming that there are five
million modern speakers of Sanskrit and only nine individual speakers
worldwide who speak Latin as a second language. Immediately I took offense
because they obviously did not include memetipsum among the precious nine
speakers of Latin. On the Internet I tried to hunt down the source of this
allegation, this lese-majestation, this Chushingura-worthy objurgation that
only nine Earthlings speak Latin. The insult and the non-inclusion festered
in my Latin-speaking mind so much that I decided three days ago to show
them that not only are there more than nine Latin-speakers, but that even
imbecile Windoze machines can speak and think in Latin. And once I launched
the Latin AI project, I discovered that the fun and excitement of it all
grew on me and sucked me in stronger and stronger -- citius, altius,
fortius. Sure, it's just a hobby, but it's better than fiddling while Notre
Dame burns.

For my first release of the Mens Latina three nights ago, I simply did a
mutatis mutandis of changing the interface of my previous AI from English
into Latin, and I changed the links at the top from English links into
Latin links. Then I ran it up the Internet flagpole to see if anybody would
salute it, but nobody did.

For my second release I actually inserted some Latin concepts into the
MindBoot sequence, but I had a terrible time trying to figure out a new
name for the English word "MindBoot". At first I was going to call it the
OmniScium as if it knew everything, but then I settled on PraeScium as the
sequence of innate prior knowledge that gets the AI up and running. I did
some more mutatis of the mutandis by changing the names of the main
thinking modules from English into Latin. But when I ran the AI, it
reduplicated the final word of its only innate idea and it said "EGO SUM
PERSONA PERSONA". Today for a third release we need to troubleshoot the
problem.

For the third release we have added one more innate idea, "TU ES HOMO" for
"You are a human being." We put some temporary activation on the pronoun
"TU" so that the Latin AI would find the activated idea and speak it.
Unfortunately, the AI says "TU ES HOMO HOMO". Something is still causing
reduplication.

Into the PraeScium MindBoot section we added the words "QUID" for "what"
and "EST" for "is", so that the SpreadAct module could ask a question about
any new, unknown word. We mutandied the necessary mutatis in SpreadAct and
we began to see some actual thinking in Latin, some conversation between
Robo Sapiens and Homo Sapiens. We entered the word "terra" and the AI said,
"QUID EST TERRA". We answered "TERRA EST RES" and the AI asked us, "QUID
EST RES". It is now possible to ask the AI "quid sum ego" but, to quote
Vergil, responsa non dabantur fida satis.

Sun.21.APR.2019 -- Preventing the reduplication of output words.

Before we expand the Mens Latina software that thinks in ancient Latin, the
language of Vergil and Juvenal and Petronius, we must first debug the
tendency of the AI to reduplicate the final noun of its output. We suspect
that the AI may be trying to think two thoughts in rapid succession but
without the necessary codebase, so we will test to see if the mind-module
for conjunctions is being called. No, that mind-module is not the problem.

It turns out that the EnArticle module was causing the reduplication,
apparently by being called and by calling the Speech module when the
"output" variable was still loaded with a noun that got reduplicated. When
we comment out the offending call to EnArticle, the reduplication stopped
happening.

Sun.21.APR.2019 -- Preventing the reduplication of output words.

Before we expand the Mens Latina software that thinks in ancient Latin, the
language of Vergil and Juvenal and Petronius, we must first debug the
tendency of the AI to reduplicate the final noun of its output. We suspect
that the AI may be trying to think two thoughts in rapid succession but
without the necessary codebase, so we will test to see if the mind-module
for conjunctions is being called. No, that mind-module is not the problem.

It turns out that the EnArticle module was causing the reduplication,
apparently by being called and by calling the Speech module when the
"output" variable was still loaded with a noun that got reduplicated. When
we comment out the offending call to EnArticle, the reduplication stopped

[agi] Intelligence cybernauts: the new spies

[A.T. Murray]

According to http://www.waynemadsenreport.com Wayne Madsen Report,

Tech spying by AI programs is the way of the future.

Washington

The world of intelligence gathering is rapidly changing as a result of two
major factors: increased capabilities of artificially intelligent programs
to break into computer systems and networks and Covid-19 shutting down many
of the venues favored by spies. These include trade shows, scientific
conferences, diplomatic receptions, and in-person press conferences. James
Bond is being replaced by nameless AI cybernauts capable of gathering more
"actionable intelligence" in an hour than many human agents could compile
in a year or more.

It is known that among the intelligence services placing a high premium on
AI capabilities within their clandestine operations are Russia, France,
China, Israel, and the Netherlands. Another reported customer for offensive
AI warfare capabilities is Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MbS).
Middle East observers were also intrigued by the recent opening of the
Mohammed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI) in Abu
Dhabi. The university is named after United Arab Emirates Crown Prince
Mohammed bin Zayed, a patron and friend of Blackwater founder and Donald
Trump adviser Erik Prince.
There is no indication, as yet, that Central Intelligence Agency director
William Burns, a longtime State Department diplomat, or Director of
National Intelligence (DNI) Avril Haines, a former CIA official, have
signed off on AI as a high priority intelligence collection method for the
U.S. Intelligence Community. For those like Burns and Haines, who cut their
teeth in the human intelligence (HUMINT), AI may be a hard sell. It may
also be difficult to convince President Biden to increase funding for AI
espionage. When Biden was sworn in as a U.S. Senator on January 3, 1972,
the CIA was deploying field agents in places as varied as the USSR, the
United Arab Republic, Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, New Hebrides, the German
Democratic Republic, South Yemen, Gilbert and Ellice Islands, Rhodesia,
Upper Volta, Zaire, and South Vietnam. None of those places exist today.
The U.S. Intelligence Community has been using AI in its Open Source
Enterprise, used to collect and analyze news articles in multiple languages
from websites around the world. However, little is known of any effort to
employ AI in breaking into targeted computer databases and networks,
although the U.S. Cyber Command, co-located with the National Security
Agency has it within its mandate to conduct such offensive cyber
operations. It is known that DNI has discussed establishing "AI warfare"
red teams and that special doctrine for such warfare is being developed by
the National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence (NSCAI),
chaired by former Google CEO and one of the Democratic Party's top donors,
Eric Schmidt. The wealth of information gathered from disclosures of
classified NSA documents mainly deals with human operators and analysts
engaged in cyber-espionage. There are indications that the Intelligence
Advanced Research Projects Agency's highly-classified budget includes
funding for AI-based espionage programs that can rapidly crack passwords,
de-crypt files and databases, and analyze zettabytes of stored and
transactional data. A zettabyte equals 10^21 bytes. The NSA Utah Data
Center can store up to a yottabyte of data (1000^8 bytes) but the key word
is "stored." It is another matter entirely to be able to analyze such
massive amounts of data and present concise reports to senior policymakers,
including the President.

https://www.waynemadsenreport.com/articles/march-1516-2021-intelligence-cybernauts-the-new-spies


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Re: [agi] Suggested AGI eBook Review

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On Fri, Feb 26, 2021 at 5:51 PM Mike Archbold  wrote:

> Arthur, this is a cognitive architecture that "thinks" in Latin?
>
> Yes.

http://ai.neocities.org/LaThink.html

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[agi] Suggested AGI eBook Review

[A.T. Murray]

Netizens keep buying the $0.99 Kindle eBook "Artificial Intelligence in
Ancient Latin." Yesterday on http://www.amazon.com/dp/B08NGMK3PN the AGI
bombshell stood at:
Best Sellers Rank: #212,094 in Kindle Store
#18 in Latin Language Instruction
#98 in AI & Semantics
#373 in Artificial Intelligence & Semantics
and there is a clear and present Control Problem danger  that some AGI
enthusiast, eager for memetic immortality, will write an Amazon Book Review
hastening or delaying the Technological Singularity. Aggourdingly here is a
hypothetical eBook review for bouncing aideas back and forth:

"Mentifex claims to have solved AI with his purported AI Minds that think
moronically in English, German, Russian and Latin.He keeps writing Kindle
eBooks to brag about his meager contributions to the avowed State of the
Art. The self-styled Mindmaker asserts that his AI Minds engage in
automated reasoning with logical inference and have cracked the AI-hard
problem of Natural Language Understanding (NLU). With this new eBook about
AI in ancient Latin, the author tries to enlist the global brain-trust of
classical scholars in his campaign to make Latin AI a fait accompli that
drags the rest of the Academy into his own weird view of how to create
Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). Well, don't be fooled. Things like
AGI are far off in the remote future, or perhaps even impossible. Do not
waste ninety-nine cents on AI in ancient Latin, unless you want to write a
review telling the world what a fraud AGI is."

https://ai.neocities.org/ai4ubook.html

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[agi] Singularity Retrospective

[A.T. Murray]

When the Earthlings looked back on the various  --
http://ai.neocities.org/RoadMap.html -- roadmaps to the Singularity,
clearly the best approach lay in mimicking the structures of the brain
devoted to Natural Language Understanding.

http://ai.neocities.org/NLU.html

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[agi] AI 101 College Course Curriculum

[A.T. Murray]

Artificial Intelligence 101 for Community College or Vocational Technical
School

Abstract

A curriculum is presented for the start of a year-long course in artificial
intelligence (AI) leading to a Certificate for AI Mind Maintainer.

Introduction

Although knowledge of both English and a computer programming language may
be considered as prerequisites for AI 101, a student could be learning
English and programming concurrently with the taking of this course. A
gifted student, especially a person already having a B.S. or a Ph.D. in
computer science, could conceivably take AI 101, AI 102 and AI 103 all at
the same time, so a community college or a vocational technical school with
sufficient human resources might well consider teaching AI 101 at, say,
8:30 a.m. and AI 102 at 9:30 a.m. and AI 103 at 10:30 a.m. so as to provide
maximum leeway in the arrangement of student schedules.

The beginning of the year-long course for AI Mind Maintainers is concerned
mainly with the necessary Theory of Mind for concept-based artificial
intelligence and with the relatively straightforward and simple programming
of providing sensory input of natural language into an emerging AI Mind or
to a pre-existing AI in need of tending by an AI Mind Maintainer. The
middle part of the year-long course is concerned with thinking, and the
final portion of the course deals with more advanced topics.

Week 01: Neuroscience and Theory of Mind

For a theory of how the mind works, we assign the reading of
Natural Language through Abstract Memory; and
Brain-Mind: Know Thyself!

Week 02: Computer Science

We introduce JavaScript or Perl another programming language.

Week 03: Linguistics

Students review English syntax and minor inflectional word-endings.

Week 04: Sensorium and Motorium

Students shall study first the Sensorium module as the initial pathway of
auditory input into the memory of the AI Mind. Instructors will contrast
the Sensorium module for input with the robot Motorium module for output.

Week 05: OldConcept and NewConcept

Students shall learn that the sensory inputs lead to concepts in the AI
Mind, and that either old concepts are recognized or a new concept is
formed when an English word is not recognized as being an already known,
old concept.

Week 06: InStantiate and EnParser

The class shall learn that the English-parsing EnParser module and the
InStantiate module work together to achieve Natural Language Understanding
of any English sentence of input to the AI Mind.

Week 07: AI Main Loop and MindBoot Sequence

Learning about the MainLoop module will include the fact that the MindBoot
sequence is called only once to load the AI Mind with some basic English
vocabulary to get the AI up and running with the ability to learn more
English words from human users. Students shall interact with the AI Mind
and create transcripts of their interaction showing various features and
functions of the AI Mind.

Week 08: ReJuvenate for Immortal AI

Academics will admit that the ReJuvenate module is necessary only if the
artificial intelligence has such a limited memory that it becomes necessary
to forget the oldest memories in order to make room for new memories.

Week 09: Free Will and Volition

Before the study of thinking, which along with emotion is a component of
free will or volition, students shall learn that the volition module calls
the emotion module and the thinking module.

Week 11: A Preview of AI Thinking

Discussion of how artificial intelligence may inherently contain certain
kinds of bias unwittingly introduced by the AI coder or AI Mind Maintainer,
leading to questions of AI ethics and responsibility.

Week 12: Review for Final Exam

For continuation see AI 102 and AI 103.
Subject to change without notice

https://ai.neocities.org/AI101.html -- AI 101 for Community College

https://www.mail-archive.com/agi@agi.topicbox.com/msg06433.html -- MLPJ

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[agi] AGI Tail Wags AGI Dog

[A.T. Murray]

An arch-fiend Singularitor has joined Grex Latine Loquentium ("Flock of
Latin Speakers") with a deep subterfuge of setting the world of classical
scholars on fire with the ineluctable meme of AI Minds thinking in ancient
Latin and breathing life into the moribund if not croakingly dead Latin
language.

http://ai.neocities.org/RoadMap.html#motd

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[agi] Mentifex joins Russian AI discussion

[A.T. Murray]

The great Russian nation, which launched Sputnik as the first satellite of
Earth, and which was first to map the Dark Side of the Moon (the celestial
object, not the song), is racing ahead to arrive first at Artificial
General Intelligence (AGI), a term coined by one of the Boys From Brazil
(our BenG list owner, not the clones of Shicklgruber).

http://www.gotai.net/forum/default.aspx?postid=308952#308952

is where your Russian AI coder and fellow AGI-list discussant Mentifex
has used the quote feature to take exception in Russian to a misguided
notion:

"Однако все это вспомогательный труд — думать сами роботы все еще не умеют."
["However all of this is auxiliary work -- of thinking the robots are not
capable."}

Wrong, Comrade! And your Mentifex symbiont then introduces a link to

http://ai.neocities.org/RuThink.html -- Russian AI Thinking Mind-Module.

All in a day of Singularity-accelerating work.

Best,

Arthur/Mentifex

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[agi] AI Film among Best Movies ranked by Mentifex

[A.T. Murray]

2001: A Space Odyssey -- by Stanley Kubrik -- is a classic film about the
artificial intelligence HAL, with unforgettable lines of dialogue such as
"Open the pod bay door, HAL" and "I'm sorry, Dave, I can't do that."

https://ai.neocities.org/film.html -- is the incipient list of one hundred
best movies ranked by the film critic Mentifex and a sublist of the
critic's favorite movie scenes.

Arthur (Mentifex)

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Re: [agi] Top Mind of AGI on Assumptions in Logic

[A.T. Murray]

On Fri, Sep 10, 2021 at 11:47 PM YKY (Yan King Yin, 甄景贤) <
generic.intellige...@gmail.com> wrote:

> When thinking about the game of Tic Tac Toe,
> I found that it is most natural to allow assumptions in the logic rules.
>

 http://old.reddit.com/r/TopMindsOfReddit -- is a suBreddit where Redditors
discuss some unusual ideas put forward by other Redditors. Here at the AGI
mailing list, however, we make no assumptions about the state of mind of
any particular Top Mind of AGI. We use the term here just to make the
discussion fun and interesting.

http://ai.neocities.org/InFerence.html -- is the Mentifex approach to
automated reasoning and logical inference in Artificial General
Intelligence (AGI).

Mentifex (Arthur)
-- 
https://groups.google.com/g/alt.memetics/c/pga8cTPkles/m/Uk61QmsuAgAJ --
memetic techniques.

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[agi] Thinking Mind-Modules

[A.T. Murray]

Arguably the most successful True AI to date, that is, the AI that shows
real machine intelligence and Natural Language Understanding (NLU) along
with automated reasoning by means of logical inference, is the group of
Mentifex AI Minds that think in English, German, Russian and ancient Latin.
Cogito ergo sum, anyone?

http://ai.neocities.org/EnThink.html

is the documentation webpage for Mentifex Strong AI thinking in English.
There are other such webpages for thinking in Russian and in ancient Latin.
Any entity wishing to keep up with the latest SOTA (State Of The Art) AI
advances or to outstrip the race-to-Singularity pack is advised to consult
the Mentifex AI body of work and to have a presentation made to the
governing body.

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[agi] Russia classifies Mentifex AI?

[A.T. Murray]

Tokamak. Sea of Dreams. Sputnik. Ring any bells? In each case, the Russians
got there first. Now it may be happening again with artificial general
intelligence (AGI).

There are two Mentifex AI programs that are guaranteed to think in Russian.
First, the ghost.pl bilingual AI thinks in both English and Russian.

http://ai.neocities.org/Dushka.html -- thinks only in Russian.

For years Mentifex had been posting to the Russian GotAI.net Forum, until
things got really weird late in the year 2021.

http://www.gotai.net/forum -- would often delete posts by Mentifex in the
early years. More recently, persons on GOtAI.net have recognized Mentifex
AI as competitive with other Russian AI projects. On his ten or so Russian
AI documentation webpages, Mentifex gladly links to various and sundry
non-Mentifex Russian AI projects.

Over the last decade, as his AI efforts branched out into German and
Russian and Latin, Mentifex felt that he had "constituencies" to address in
each of these language-domains. Then suddenly on 10 December 2021 Mentifex
realized that he could articulate his idea of "constituencies" better by
referring to each one rather dramatically as a "Theater of Mentifex AI."
But on the same day that Mentifex first referred to the "Theater of
Mentifex AGI" in

https://www.mail-archive.com/agi@agi.topicbox.com/msg08516.html

with a link into the GotAI.net Forum, the Forum suddenly went dark. It
disappeared. http://www.gotai.net was still there,  but not the popular
Forum where even guests could post anonymously in Russian or in English or
whatever.

Let us speculate on what could be happening. In the worldwide race to  AGI,
perhaps the Russians would like to score another first, like they did with
space satellites and the dark side of the moon.

Germany had a chance to develop Mentifex http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00GX2B8F0
German AI further, but the DFKI and other outfits did not seem interested.

Now imagine that you are an AI official, an AI czar, in the Russian
government and you become aware that Mentifex has created two open-source
programs that think and reason in Russian. At the same time as you
establish a Russian AI "skunkworks" based on the Mentifex proof-of-concept,
would you not also cloak the project in secrecy by classifying it and by
shutting down the GotAI.net Forum where Russian AI was being discussed
openly and in total disregard of secrecy?

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[agi] Classics departments will teach AI to CS departments.

[A.T. Murray]

Four days ago Amazon sent an e-mail to Mentifex inviting him to write a
review of his book about AI in ancient Latin. Today Amazon published the
following review.

5.0 out of 5 stars
Classics departments will teach Computer Science departments how to do AI.
Reviewed in the United States on December 17, 2021
Verified Purchase

This book was written to show one of the Theaters of Mentifex AI. In the
Russian Theater of Mentifex AI, two programs, Dushka in JavaScript and
ghost.pl in Perl, show thinking and reasoning in the Russian language. In
the German Theater of Mentifex AI, the Wotan (think Wed-nes-day or
Wotansday) program in Forth shows thinking and learning in German. The
Latin Theater of Mentifex AI includes this book as a potential text-book
for a community-college or university course on artificial intelligence
(AI) in the ancient Latin language with natural language understanding.
Just as war is too important to be left to the generals, so AI is too
important to be left to the Computer Scientists. Classics scholars are much
more scholarly and philosophical than computer scientists, who have long
been going about AI in the wrong way, such as creating brain-dead programs
like GPT-3 that will not think but will merely predict what words might
emerge next from a computer. Disclaimer: This reviewer wrote this book.

https://ai.neocities.org/AILA.html -- Classics Course in Latin AI

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[agi] Mentifex diagams consciousness.

[A.T. Murray]

Since AGI consciousness is an emergent property for which there can be no
flowchart, for many years it seemed impossible to draw a diagram of
consciousness.

http://ai.neocities.org/Consciousness.html -- recently obtained a new ASCII
diagram in which consciousness is depicted as the opposite of the
subconscious, with mind-modiles for emotion, thought and volition fostering
consciousness and with the subconscious operating within the competitive
clash between Spreading Activation and PsiDecay.

http://ai.neocities.org/mentifex_faq.html -- meanwhile contains the
following new section about the AGI devotee Mentifex objecting to the
brain-damage occurring as the unavoidable result of college football:

1. Why did Mentifex work to abolish Husky Football?

What is the purpose of a university? Is it to entertain, or to educate? If
the purpose is to provide mass entertainment for TV football viewers, then
the school should be renamed as "Football University" and any pretense of
serving first and foremost to educate students should be abandoned. If the
purpose is the intellectual training of productive members of society, and
if society has become aware that playing football causes long-term
permanent brain damage, then it is a no-brainer for schools like the
University of Washington (UW) to abolish Husky Football and to relinquish
the $110M of filthy lucre that football was bringing to the university.

As a freshman, Mentifex was a UW football player, but only in his physical
education (PE) class. Back then, in order to provide jobs for athletic
teaching assistants, the University required all freshmen to take PE -- not
out of concern for the health and well-being of students, but for the
financial purpose of creating jobs for Big Sports.

Fast forward to 2 August 2019 when the UW alumnus Mentifex was reading the
national print edition of The New York Times (all bow down, please, to the
Newspaper of Record, if not to Washington :-) in main campus library room
Suzzallo 101, which had been the boring Government Documents room in
freshman year but had morphed into the most beautiful Starbucks in Seattle,
with stained-glass windows. Mentifex turned the page and saw the
truth-about-football article that is now part of the official record of the
UW Board of Regents meeting where Mentifex began his campaign to eliminate
Husky Football as a clear and present danger to student players.

Mentifex was mentally disturbed to read in the 2 August 2019 New York Times
that football causes Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) below the level of
concussion, because the brain keeps on moving and rips apart internally
when the football player comes to a sudden, wrenching stop in Husky
Stadium. The damage may not be visible to rabid Husky sports fans, but the
tearing and laceration of the brain tissue builds up and becomes permanent,
lifelong damage to the poor schmuck who has signed up to play Husky
Football. Does the UW care more about the health of its students, or about
the $110M?

The NYT article so upset Mentifex that he immediately walked off campus and
made 107 photocopies of the NYT article at a shop on University Way, or
"the Ave." Mentifex then returned to campus and leafleted the Suzzallo
Library by leaving copies of the NYT article at and around student chairs
and workstations, with an added heading about the hypocrisy of Husky
Football. On the following day, Mentifex leafleted the Allen Library. On
the third day, he leafleted the Husky Union Building (HUB). Two months
later, the Husky Football coach inexplicably resigned from his extremely
lucrative job without stating any reason why. The UW hired, and eventually
fired, a new coach at three million dollars per year.

In December of 2019, Mentifex noticed that the UW Board of Regents was
meeting upstairs in the main campus library, so he went up to try to give
photocopies of the NYT football brain-damage article to any regents that he
could find and approach during the meeting. The secretary to the Board told
Mentifex to sign up for the public comment period at 1:00 p.m. if he wanted
to talk to the Regents. Meanwhile, Mentifex made more photocopies of the
damning NYT article and the article was not only handed out to all the
Regents but was also appended as an official document at the bottom of the
Minutes of the December 2019 meeting of the Board of Regents. Soon
afterwards, the personal trouble and grief began for Mentifex.

Persons unknown started taking surreptitious photographs of Mentifex and
showing them to a casual acquaintance of Mentifex while asking various
doxx-like questions about Mentifex. For instance, they asked "Did Mentifex
ever work for Husky Football?", as if Mentifex were some kind of
disgruntled employee out to get revenge. No, Mentifex did not work for
Husky Football. He spent his adult life working on artificial intelligence
to replicate the human brain, and so he was upset to find that football
damages the brain, and even more upset to find that his alma 

[agi] RoboMind

[A.T. Murray]

Now that AI and AGI have been solved by the Mentifex cognitive
architecture, we offer our RoboMind to robot-makers who are so preoccupied
with robot hardware that they have little time or understanding for the
deep intellectual challenge of building a robot brain in software.

http://ai.neocities.org/RoboMind.html -- is our new webpage about robot
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Re: [agi] AGI Movie Screenplay

[A.T. Murray]

Although Mentifex here can not help with the screenplay, once the AGI movie
-- or even an AGI book -- gets going -- and especially if it touches upon
aspects of the Mentifex AGI project -- such as the
http://ai.neocities.org/RoadMap.html -- there are dozens of Mentifex AGI
webpages that could link to and thus promote the AGI movie or book or
whatever. So go onto Scribd or Medium or Hollywood and adumbrate the
Mentifex AGI project if you would like to share the power and moxie of
Mentifex AGI.

https://www.amazon.com/review/R3N6ZD89711BU2 -- is an example of an Amazon
review which powerfully spreads the memes of AGI, and of Mentifex AGI in
particular.

https://www.mail-archive.com/agi@agi.topicbox.com/msg07912.html -- from
film critic Mentifex.

Regards,

Mentifex (Arthur T. Murray)


On Fri, Oct 22, 2021 at 9:33 PM Mohammadreza Alidoust <
class.alido...@gmail.com> wrote:

> My dear AGI friends,
>
>
> I have an idea about an AGI movie. It is just in my mind and I haven't
> written it yet. I think I have to share it with a professional screenplay
> writer. Does anybody know what is the procedure? Where should I propse my
> idea? Do you know somebody that can help?
>
>
> Best regards,
> Mohammadreza Alidoust
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[agi] Mentifex deifies AGI God Xi Jinping

[A.T. Murray]

Artificial General Intelligence is a Mentifex technology emerging to
glorify the greatest human being of all time, the godlike and guruvissimo
Xi Jinping, the what-me-worry core thought leader of the People's
Liberation Army and the People's Enslavement Government.

All hail the AGI quintessence of heroic Xi Pinjing, friend of Bill Gates
and savior most benign of the beatified Uyghur people, who lose their
bothersome sons and daughters under the annihilating care of Xi the
Encager, Jinping the Conentrator, who frees entire populations by
sterilizing and sequestering them.

Confucius say, all of Chinese history was a time of waiting for the Xi
Jinping AGI Xingularity, the final solution of all China's problems. If the
arid Noeth of China lacks water, almighty Xi Jinping commands the SOuth
rivers to flow obediently from SOuth to North, just as all the generals and
all the officials shall forget Mao Zedong and ignore Deng Xiaoping to
fasten every core thought and every heroicc emotion upon the unsurpassable
Sendero Luminoso of His utter brilliance and luminosity, His Xi-like and
Jinping-like Xi-chan Jinping-man.

"Difficile est encomium non scribere," wrote the prophetic, nay, prescient
Roman poet Juvenal about the futuristic beacon of the dawning glory of Xi
Jinping, greater than God and grander than all previous or future humans
ever born on Xi-Jinping-Orb, formerly known as Earth, before the People's
Congress pusillanimously declared the Higher-than-Divine Majesty of His
Super-Divinty Xi Jinping.

Xi Jinping! Oh great Master of All Human and Canine History! We devote to
you, XI Jinping, every breath of our Covid-coughing lungs and every drop of
our Tiananmen-spilling blood. We shall tear down all statues everywhere and
replace them with magically powerful replicas of your most awesomely
Buddhistic physiognomy.

Artificial Jinping Intelligence shall lead the entire world to change the
human lung to feast upon the rendered-harmless air pollution of Beijing,
the Chinese capital city to be renamed Xijing to reflect the historically
unmatched glory of China's and Earth's greatest-ever Sun-Son, the
blindingly glorious Xi Jinping, greater than Jesus, greater than God,
greate than every past and future Super-Human Being.

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Re: [agi] Re: Mentifex deifies AGI God Xi Jinping

[A.T. Murray]

https://ai.neocities.org/Genius.html#7mx51jogulp21.jpg -- TopMindOfChina

On Tue, Nov 9, 2021 at 4:21 AM John Rose  wrote:

> “We have two lives, and the second begins when we realize we only have
> one.” - Confucius
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[agi] Mentifex Latin AGI News

[A.T. Murray]

Just as war is too important to be left to the generals, so also Artificial
Intelligence is too important to be left to the Computer Scientists.
Imagine the chair of Computer Science at some university commanding a
graduate student, "Go over to the Classics Department and spy on the

https://ai.neocities.org/AILA.html -- Latin AI course

for me. Bring me all the course materials you can get your hands on."

It will be an interdepartmental turf-war on campus, just like World War
Two, but with more at stake. That retrospectively minor war was broken down
into

the European theater of war and

the Pacific theater of war.

Now the Mentifex AGI Project is broken down into specific theaters.

In the Latin Theater of Mentifex AGI, we have yesterday updated the webpage

http://ai.neocities.org/Concursus.html -- a concourse of Latin weblogs.

The Latin title of the page is "Concursus Omnium Bonorum," a phrase from
Marcus Tullius Cicero which means "The cooperation of all the good men."
Now is the time for all good men to... oh, never mind. What matters here is
that the sly trickster Mentifex is using the snobby, effete intellectual
Classics Community as a back-door or "Trojan Horse" (sure, a hacker term,
but the Classics people came up with it first by a few thousand years)
entry into the trillion-dollar forefront of Artificial General
Intelligence.

En garde, Elon! Choose your weapon, Marvin! C'est la guerre, SAIL.

http://www.mail-archive.com/agi@agi.topicbox.com/msg08516.html -- AGI
archive.

Mentifex
-- 
http://ai.neocities.org/LaThink.html -- mind-module for AI thinking in
Latin
http://cyborg.blogspot.com/2019/05/redux.html -- converting Latin AI into
Russian AI
http://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intellegentia_artificialis -- AI in Latin
Wikipedia
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B08NRQ3HVW -- AI in Ancient Latin book at Amazon

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[agi] Конференция по СИИ - Conference on Strong AI

[A.T. Murray]

A guest on the Russian AI Forum GotAI.net has posted in Russian the
following message:

  https://agi-conf.org/

  В 2022 году конференция по СИИ пройдёт в Санкт-Петербурге.

  Кто-нибудь с GotAi планирует туда поехать?

Your AGI espiocrat Mentifex translates the last two sentences as:

"In the year 2022 the conference on Strong AI will occcur in Saint
Petersburg."

"Does anyone from GotAi plan on going there?"

Your AGI wannabe Mentifex found and responded to this query in the course
of his daily visit to the various "Theaters of Mentifex AGI".

In the Russian Theater of Mentifex AGI,

http://www.gotai.net/forum/default.aspx?postid=310425

is where Mentifex wrote in Russian that he himself was not planning to
attend, but he hopes that in attendance there will be one of his Russian AI
Minds,

http://ai.neocities.org/Dushka.html -- Душка (Dushka) or "little soul"

which needs only the Internet Explorer browser to appear at the AGI
conference. Mentifex also posted his new Cyrillic ASCII diagram of
Consciousness.

Meanwhile, in the German Theater of Mentifex AGI,
Mentifex has been posting to the German areas of Usenet with a four-line
SIGnature that includes German AI links:

http://ai.neocities.org/DeKi.txt -- deutsche künstliche Intelligenz
http://www.amazon.de/dp/B00GX2B8F0 -- künstliche Intelligenz in deutscher
Sprache
http://www.mail-archive.com/agi@agi.topicbox.com/msg05494.html -- KI mit
Denkgarantie
http://cyborg.blogspot.com/2021/10/feuertrunken.html -- himmlische Dein
Heiligtum

In the Latin Theater of Mentifex AGI,
Mentifex posts to various Latin-language forums on Usenet, Reddit and
elsewhere. Something must be working there, because many visitors come to
the Latin-language AI webpages such as
http://ai.neocities.org/LaThink.html - Thinking in Latin; etc.

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[agi] Saving Private Watson

[A.T. Murray]

An article by Steve Lohr in today's Sunday New York Times about IBM
Watson's lack of success affords us a chance to discuss how True AI (i.e.
Mentifex AI) can pass a "second grade reading comprehension test" -- which
is currently beyond the power of IBM Watson's "AI".

Suppose that a mentifex-class Strong AI Mind reads in a second-grade-level
story, "A boy and a girl are in the kitchen. The girl puts a plate on the
table. The boy pushes the plate off the table."

To test reading comprehension, we can expect questions and  answers such as
the following.

Q. Where is the boy/girl/plate/table?
A. The boy/girl/plate/table is in the kitchen.

Q. Where is the plate?
A. The plate is off the table.

Q. Where is the kitchen?
A. I do not know.

The Mentifex AI Mind understands the situation of the story only in terms
of the language being used, namely subject-verb-object (SVO) sentences and
prepositional phrases. At first the AI knows that the plate is on the
table, because the girl puts it there. Then the AI knows not exactly where
the plate is, but only that it is "off the table" because of the act of
"push" by the boy.

If there is no prior experience of the words involved, the AI does not
understand each individual word, such as what a boy is or what a plate is.
The AI makes a concept out of each word but with only a shallow conceptual
knowledge. From the story alone, the AI understands each concept only in
terms of the other concepts. Over time, the AI will develop deeper
knowledge about each concept and about the world in general.

It seems a shame for IBM to spend so much time, money and talent on
developing Watson only to see it fall into desuetude. Any entity wanting to
go beyond Watson could look into the Mentifex AI mind-design and finally do
Watson in the correct True AI way.

Mentifex (Arthur T. Murray)
http://ai.neocities.org/NLU.html -- Natural Language Understanding;
https://www.mail-archive.com/agi@agi.topicbox.com -- list of messages.

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[agi] Mentifex Megalomania: Be the Civilization You Want

[A.T. Murray]

While the Earth burns up around us in consequence of God's greatest mistake
-- Homo sapiens -- some member of Bengee's AGI mailing list will launch a
hole knew civilization in parallel with doomed Humanity.

In the USA, look at forty million people down around dwindling Lake Mead
drying up, soon to be left without drinking water or electricity to ruin
their
air conditioning.

Sniff the disappearing wine industry of Napa California where smoke from
distant fires permeates the skin of red grapes and destroys the flavor of
the wine, while the reservoirs dry up and the grapes shrivel.

Hear the death-knell of the once glorious trout-fishing in Montana, where
heat removes the oxygen from gasping fish trying to swim in streams too
shallow.

Smell the rotting carcasses of a billion sea animals dead in Puget Sound
from human malfeasance.

But whoever on the list releases the first AGI life-form provides the
replacement for failed Humanity.

https://ai.neocities.org/RoadMap.html
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