mentifex's comments

Thanks for the vicious ad hominem attack.

http://groups.google.com/d/msg/comp.speech/yahN5-cOAQk/noUBk... -- was the first such FAQ twenty years ago.

http://www.advogato.org/article/769.html -- is my own version of the FAQ a dozen years ago.

http://ai.neocities.org/mentifex_faq.html -- is a more recent version. People should think for themselves and not accept vindictive, slanted, deceptive Mentifex-bashing.

Fathers! Keep Donald "Grab 'em by the pussy" Trump away from your daughters.

http://www.technologyreview.com/s/602094/ais-language-proble... by Will Knight on 2016-08-09 addresses the same problem of NLU (Natural Language Understanding). I have long been working on True AI programs that think with automated reasoning (inference) in English, German and Russian. My webpage at http://ai.neocities.org/SOTA.html invites AI Projects to expand upon my http://github.com/PriorArt/AGI/wiki/MindGrid software by assigning their own staff members to work on specific AI mind-modules. I feel that I have been able to solve the AI language problem because I first spent thirteen years creating at http://mind.sourceforge.net/theory5.html a linguistic Theory of Mind for concept-based artificial intelligence. My http://www.linkedin.com/in/mentifex profile indicates that creating the first True AI is not a team project or the work of a committee, because some one ambitious intellect must grapple and wrestle with the ordeal of initial creation, after which teams and IT departments and commercial AGI Projects can parcel out the individual enhancement assignments for the further development of an Artificial General Intelligence. At http://groups.google.com/d/msg/de.sci.informatik.ki/4ikvL8rO... I discuss in German the difference between a simple, primitive, concept-based AI which operates on the assumption that all verbal inputs to it are true statements and not lies, so that the AI may think and reason without suspicion, and on the other hand a conscious AI which bears the onerous burden of judging whether statements made to it are truth or lies.

Please be sure to mention the JavaScript AI Mind at http://www.nlg-wiki.org/systems/Mind composed of JavaScript mind-modules for thinking and reasoning in English. In each book of the series also mention the JavaScript Russian AI Dushka at http://www.nlg-wiki.org/systems/Dushka also composed of JavaScript modules for Microsoft Internet Explorer (MSIE). And http://ai.neocities.org/Spanish.html has Spanish-language translations of Mentifex artificial intelligence.

Until we have MasPar chips or biological substrate chips, True Strong AI such as at http://ai.neocities.org needs not more number-crunching chips for machine learning (a false goal) but simply better 64-bit von-Neumann-architecture chips. MindForth Mentifex AI at http://www.nlg-wiki.org/systems/Mind.Forth would benefit from a 64-bit native Forth CPU _lacking_ floating-point gates and simply providing execution of the most basic Forth instructions. Furthermore, the Wall Street Journal of 2016-10-27 on page B5 has an article by Sara Castellanos titled "Corporate IT Turns to Serverless Computing". It says that "serverless computing allows developers to focus only on writing code" such as http://github.com/PriorArt/AGI/blob/master/ghost.pl "without having to manage servers." The application of the customer (such as the two greatest AI's in the world, MindForth and the Perlmind q.v.) "is broken down into small pieces and placed into software shells...." Strong AI needs not fancier chips but more hospitable cloud environments. Deep Thinking is more important than Deep Learning. Mentifex AI Minds can already engage in automated reasoning with logical inference. ML is a detour on our way to True AI and the Technological Singularity.

http://ai.neocities.org/AiSteps.html tells how to do it.

Although Netizens fault me for not having a computer science degree, my B.A. in ancient Greek and Latin classics has helped me to create True AI programs that think with automated reasoning (inference) in English, German and Russian. My webpage at http://ai.neocities.org/SOTA.html invites AI Projects to expand upon my http://github.com/PriorArt/AGI/wiki/MindGrid software by assigning their own staff members to work on specific AI mind-modules. I feel that I have been able to solve the AI language problem because I first spent thirteen years creating at http://mind.sourceforge.net/theory5.html a linguistic Theory of Mind for concept-based artificial intelligence. My http://www.linkedin.com/in/mentifex profile indicates that creating the first True AI is not a team project or the work of a committee, because some one ambitious intellect must grapple and wrestle with the ordeal of initial creation, after which teams and IT departments and commercial AGI Projects can parcel out the individual enhancement assignments for the further development of an Artificial General Intelligence.

Afternote: When the M.I.T. Technology Review article came out on 2016-08-09 and was discussed on Reddit, my above comment was attacked by Mentifex-bashers and was deleted from the Technology Review comments forum in an act of CENSORSHIP by Technology Review. At the same time, my Reddit version of the same comment at http://www.reddit.com/r/artificial/comments/4wvva0/ais_langu... came under heavy attack and was down-voted to a minus-twenty-five (-25) level. A few weeks later, from Technology Review I received an e-mail informing me that Comments would be discontinued for a while until Technology Review figures out how to manage them better. See http://www.technologyreview.com/s/602391/why-we-turned-off-c... for more details.

http://ai.neocities.org/AiLaw.html is complex material.

In accordance with http://medium.com/p/6e3c4a670400 the new cable link may aid the goal of Overthrow Chinese Government to Liberate Hong Kong.

Although my main work is in open-source, free-of-charge, concept-based artificial general intelligence (AGI), my side project is to work patiently and steadfastly to overthrow the unelected Chinese government. As a follower of world events, I am still very angry about the Tiananmen Massacre when the still-ruling Chinese government killed hundreds of peaceful young Chinese students gathering each day to plead for USA-style democracy in China. Instead of hustling the young protesters off to detention and "re-education", the still-in-power Chinese government simply shot them to death, or bayoneted them, or crushed them to death with tanks. Having created Strong AI, I want to turn the AI against the Chinese government and replace it with true democracy. I am working especially hard on subverting the Chinese government right now because my alma mater University of Washington is collaborating with Microsoft and the murderous Chinese government to establish something called the Global Innovation Exchange in Bellevue between the U of W campus and the Microsoft campus. "Over my dead body," is my attitude. I don't care what Microsoft does in cahoots with the Chinese government, but I will make signs and go out and protest before I let my beloved Alma Mater whitewash a student-killing Chinese government. I am encouraging Chinese students attending the U of W to return to China as pro-democracy spies to subvert the evil Chinese government -- which is so afraid of any kind of protest, that I know I can get the Chinese government to abandon its plan to set up camp near Seattle. Anybody reading this in the Seattle area, please make signs and protest the Chinese government in Bellevue WA USA.

Strong AI at http://www.nlg-wiki.org/systems/Mind.Forth was on the fringe for a long time.

And http://www.sourcecodeonline.com/details/ghost_perl_webserver... is ready to run on Azure.

How to get traction on an open source JavaScript project? It depends on what you mean by "traction". I have been running an open-source JavaScript project in artificial intelligence at http://www.nlg-wiki.org/systems/Mind and other venues for a number of years. The JavaScript AI project is mainly in support of my other AI projects at http://ai.neocities.org/AiSteps.html and at http://github.com/PriorArt/AGI/wiki/MindGrid and http://mind.sourceforge.net/js.html and a host of other sites. Upshot? The JSAI project does not get "traction" for itself; it exists to engender "traction" for the Mentifex Strong AI project in Forth and in Perl. Netizens who might not want to download Forth and the Mind.Forth AI will be perfectly willing to point MSIE at http://ai.neocities.org/AiMind.html and try out the JavaScript AI in English or the http://ai.neocities.org/Dushka.html AI in Russian. So, good luck in your search for "traction". Be glad that Netizens do not actively hound you and denigrate you like they do Mentifex.

Some of us are still holding out for True AI serving as the brain behind a chatbot, the MindGrid, the knowledge base (KB).

Chatbots generally answer with canned responses. It will be great when chatbots start using persistent concepts to respond with genuine ideas generated by true AI.

I live between Seattle and Vancouver, and I would like to offer my http://mind.sourceforge.net/theory5.html for http://ai.neocities.org Strong AI free-of-charge to the entrepreneurs of the Next Big Tech Corridor.