This Mentifex AI news article will guide students of artificial intelligence (AI) through the process of developing a theory of mind for AI.
This Mentifex AI news article will guide students of artificial intelligence (AI) through the process of developing a theory of mind for AI.
I've tried reading your writings before, and it just reads like a slightly more cogent Alex Chiu. Your designs are extremely primitive, and lacking lots of necessary parts.
I can't find (admittedly I didn't look very hard), for instance, anything about internal modelling of reality (what we often call Imagination), reasoning backwards from a goal to a present state, and so on.
Doing it all in JavaScript or Perl will not win you many points, either.
Also, throwing in non-sequitors about the War, etc. just makes you sound like more of a crackpot. (FYI, I'm against the war, but that has nothing to do with an article on AI theory).
Great reply by zephc, well said. A model of reality is essential for "AI minds".
Before we can construct an artificial intelligence, we must construct or arrive somehow at the other sort, first. A lifetime of study and experience actually solving real-world problems might prepare one to embark on a first effort to test some basic notions.
Also, we mustn't neglect our meds, must we?
Hi,
I think there is a bit of way to go on this. For example in your first question, you don't leave any option for sensory input that doesn't necessarily go into memory. Can I recommend work by Anne Treisman or Donald Broadbent as some basic readings on pre-attentional processing (ie, stuff that doesn't go into memory).
AJS
O Master Salmoni!
Your excellent comment above is exactly the sort of enlargement and expatiation intended with the "decision-tree" of mind-design. It was an idea that came to me in the lassitude after the big meal of an American Thanksgiving. Today it further occurred to me to "ramify" (can that be transitive?) the decision tree out into the documentation pages of many of the Mentifex AI Mind modules -- especially in the auditory system.
Sometimes I meet programmers who want to re-implement the basic mentifex-class AI not with an auditory memory channel but with a simple database of all the English words contained in the mind of the AI. Such a database would prevent multiple instantiations over time -- and conceptual learning over time. So therefore if I start showing reasons to reject such an approach within the Decision-Tree of Mind-Design, maybe a lot of re-inventing of the wheel may be nipped in the bud. Grandiose dreamer that I am, I dare to imagine a big wall-chart AI Decision-Tree for AI coders to haggle over and mark up with scratch-outs and write-ins. Anyone who wants to draw up and print out such AI charts -- feel free, because Salmoni here has shown the way. (I go now to certify you as Master! :-)
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