AI Mind (Was: Sound capture)

[Arthur T. Murray]

"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