Re: [vos-d] [philosophical] VOS as AI

2006-03-26 Thread Peter Amstutz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A few comments... VOS grew out of my work for the Multi-Agent Systems Laboratory at the University of Massachusetts. Multi-Agent Systems is, broadly states, the study of distributed AI systems. At the time we were developing a simulator which

Re: [vos-d] [philosophical] VOS as AI

2006-03-26 Thread Hugh Perkins
Something I've been thinking about a lot is replication and migration ofcomputation.If a VOS AI bot could upload itself to other servers (givenproper credentials, of course) it could quite literally wander from server to server, well beyond the purview of the creator.Unlike a virus orworm, it

Re: [vos-d] [philosophical] VOS as AI

2006-03-26 Thread Peter Amstutz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 27 Mar 2006, Hugh Perkins wrote: Something I've been thinking about a lot is replication and migration of computation. If a VOS AI bot could upload itself to other servers (given proper credentials, of course) it could quite literally

[vos-d] Re: site peering

2006-03-26 Thread Lalo Martins
And so says Peter Amstutz on 27/03/06 12:46... The solution is to completely re-think how a remote site is identified, and I will discuss this in my next email. Cryptographic key pairs? (Which would then also open up the field to encrypted payloads when we deem them necessary?) So A can refer

Re: [vos-d] site peering

2006-03-26 Thread Peter Amstutz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 27 Mar 2006, Hugh Perkins wrote: Peter, Disclaimer: the only thing I'm sure about the problem is that I havent fully understood it ;-) The problem appears to be a stable way of identifying each machine? Could you use an IP address and