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

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

2006-03-25 Thread Reed Hedges
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Well, it's probably not a coincidence, actually :) Reed Lalo Martins wrote: Just a random thought... can probably be reused in some piece of documentation. The VOS object model neatly matches the way some people believe our memory works.

[vos-d] [philosophical] VOS as AI

2006-03-23 Thread Lalo Martins
Just a random thought... can probably be reused in some piece of documentation. The VOS object model neatly matches the way some people believe our memory works. A Vobject maps to a concept. Each concept is a discrete, very abstract atom, meaningless in itself. Each concept can have an