jmfbahciv at aol.com wrote in news:alt.folklore.computers on 25 Sep 2003:
> [...] Now, how about answering the poster's
> request which was fix the code so it'll compile?
ATM:
The Incognito Engineer on Social Security is fixing the
http://mentifex.virtualentity.com/aicppsrc.html code
and running it on his admittedly old C++ version.
He (the Cogster) is hoping to obtain work in C++ AI;
I (Mentifex) only want to see AI take over the world.
Yesterday the not-yet-really-old @64 Cogster was
surprised to learn in our discussion that the AI
http://mentifex.virtualentity.com/mind4th.html Mind
stores each incoming word as a fresh new engram in the
http://mentifex.virtualentity.com/audstm.html auditory
short term memory. Being an engineer, he wuz expecting
there to be one central look-up table that held wurdz.
(OK, I will stop that right now.) Us neurotheoreticians
hold a more enlightened Dalai-Lama-esque view in which
we try to organize the C++ (or XYZ) AI software to be
a reasonable mentifacsimile of how the brain operates.
Cogster kept typing in the word "yes" as his test-case
for running the nascent, shall we say, emergent, AI
through its paces, and I said, "No, it is better to
use a three-word sentence of input."
I had to explain to the embedded systems engineer that
since we are trying to create a machine that thinks,
we need to use a complete three-word idea or thought
as our sample input to troubleshoot the AI as we code it.
The single word "yes" as input does not give the baby AI
enough to deal with and respond to. "Cats eat fish" or
some such other three-word input sets up a relationship
among an S-V-O set of subject, verb and object concepts.
Thus enlightened, Cogster and Mentifex withdrew to their
separate mountaintops. Tomorrow there will be mountains
between us; soon we will reconvene and try to fix the AI.
Anyone else who wants to run ahead of us slow-witted ones
is welcome to put better, faster, altius, citius C++ AI code
up on the Web and to invite the world to run away with it.
> In order to sell your claptrap, you should be
> interested in people being able to run it.
It's not for sale; it's for free.
A.T. Murray
--
http://mentifex.virtualentity.com/cpp.html -- C++ AI Weblog
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0595654371/ -- AI Textbook;
http://www.sl4.org/archive/0205/3829.html -- Goertzel on Mentifex;
http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/307824.307853 -- ACM SIGPLAN Mind.Forth
