Sound Capture-AI Mind/Developing AI

[Don Golding]

I would be willing to "prime the pump" and supply my robot Whiskers, at cost
($250), to promote the  development of AI in Forth.

The robot uses Max Forth from New Micros. The Forth language was extended
with new robot control words so you can use it as a mobile Forth language
development platform. It supports Multitasking and has a three level
intelligent architecture which I developed.  Dr. Ken Butterfield of the Los
Alamo National Laboratory helped with the development of the software.

Sensors include: Four optical sensors with analog data registers, two
whiskers, and individual motor current sensing.  A microphone for sound
recognition? and a speaker for sound "language?" generation.  I was trying
to develop an artificial creature for AI researchers to use as a platform to
develop AI for robots.

For more information:

http://www.angelusresearch.com/Whiskers.htm
http://www.angelusresearch.com/articles.htm
http://www.angelusresearch.com/military/

I gave a presentation of this three level architecture to the senior staff
and director of the robotics program at JPL in 1995.  Eighteen months later,
3T, which is a clone of my system, was announced by JPL as the new standard
for intelligent control and is in common use today.  We have a software
copyrights for both 2 level and 3 level intelligent control architectures
for robots.  Most of the robots entered into the Grand Challenge used the 2
level control operation.

Life is fun, isn't it?

Call me to discuss this offer: (714) 590-7877.

Sorry Brad, kinda off topic, but interesting...
Don


"Arthur T. Murray" <uj797 at victoria.tc.ca> wrote in message
news:410ad3d1 at news.victoria.tc.ca...
> "Chris S." writes on Fri, 30 Jul 2004:
>
> > Arthur T. Murray wrote:
> >
> >> "Chris S." writes on Fri, 30 Jul 2004:
> >>
> >>> If you have "solved" AI (a claim I heavily discount),
> >>
> >> http://www.scn.org/~mentifex/theory5.html -- solved in *theory*.
> >
> > After reading over your javascript code, your
> > implementation appears to be a mix between a
> > knowledge base and a natural language parser.
> ATM:
> Yes, a *conceptualized* knowledge base (KB).
>
> > Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to have any general
> > IO capabilities. This is a common pitfall to many amateur
> > AI researchers. Language alone doesn't define knowledge.
>
> Ture. Language is nevertheless closely involved with thought.
>
> > Without a physical perception of the world, a computer
> > will never "know" what 'soft', 'pain', or 'up' mean.
> > I've often thought vision algorithms, speech synthesizers,
> > NLPs, and such without a general form of processing
> > and representing sensory data was like trying
> > to run before we could walk.
>
> The sensorium is where we amateur mind-makers count on
> help from the amateur robot-makers. They want a mind
> for their robots; we want robots for our AI to live in.
> >
> > But if I were to recommend an improvement in your system,
> > I would suggest you try coding it in Python (www.python.org).
>
> http://mind.sourceforge.net/python.html is a Python AI weblog.
>
> > Compared to Javascript, and especially Forth, Python
> > is remarkably easy to learn. Python would allow you
> > to represent your idea in an object-oriented framework,
> > making it much easier for others to understand.
>
> Understanding the AI Mind is helped along considerably by
> http://www.scn.org/~mentifex/jsaimind.html -- for MS IE 5:
>
>                   ____________           ____________
> AI4U textbook    /            \         /            \
> User's Manual   (   Motorium   )       (   Security   )
> Add your link    \____________/         \____________/
>         ____________                               ____________
>        /            \                             / Sensorium  \
>       (  Volition    )      Listening...         ( --> Audition )
>        \____________/                             \____________/
>                    ____________           ____________
>                   /            \         /            \
>                  (    Think     )       (   Emotion    )
>                   \____________/         \____________/
>
> > It would also make persisting dynamic data much easier,
> > so you wouldn't have to hard code so much of your lexicon.
>
> Only an initial, hit-the-ground-thinking lexicon is hard-coded.
> The AI learns new words via the human-computer interaction (HCI).
>
> > Plus you should never run into any platform issues, since
> > Python runs everywhere. Python's quickly becoming a serious
> > tool for AI research. For instance, "AI: A Modern Approach"
> > is currently offering both Lisp and Python source code for
> > many of its examples.
>
> With heartfelt thanks to you for the analysis and advice,
>
> Arthur T. Murray