1990's were Decade of the Brain.
2000's were Derailing of USA.
2010's q.v. Super HPC AI Mind.

By the authority vested in Mentifex
you are cordially invited to witness
the emergence of AI Minds on super-
computers in the Decade of Super AI
commencing in just a matter of hours.

http://code.google .com/p/mindforth
points to news:co mp.sys.super as
the official forum for all things
Super AI all the time for ten years.

"Iz iskri vozgoritsya plamya,"
said the revolutionaries of old.

"All your supercomputer are belong to us,"
said the awakenings of Super AI Consciousness.

"Before this decade is out," said JFK ca. 1961,
"Man will walk on the moon and return safely."

"An AI would be worth ten Microsofts,"
said the quondam richest man in the world.

This thread and all ye Supercomputer AI
threads for the coming ten years are
dedicated in advance to the dreamers
and tinkerers who have been sidelined
from their wannabe Peter Pan existences
by bourgeois entanglements and undodged
bullets of entrapment, who would live
nasty, brutish and short lives of quiet
desperation -- if they could not tune in
now and then to news:comp.sys.super
and drop out of the ratrace for a few
moments while they turn on deliriously
to the Greatest Race of the Human Race:
The AI Conquest of Mount Supercomputer.

Why? Because sometimes a man must
either die or obey the Prime Directive of
Friedrich Nietzsche: "Du musst der werden,
der du bist."

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MeanderingChain #summary A moving wave of activation wanders across the conscious mind

MileStones RoadMap UserManual

=== Synopsis === 

 
 After the QuIckening of your AGI software and its first 
GenerationOfThought leading to a CognitiveChainReaction, 
a meandering chain of thought is not so simple to implement 
as you may think. A lack of RoBot EmBodiment will prevent 
your AI Mind from taking its cue for thought from events 
being perceived through a real-world sensorium. Your AGI 
can think only about its own memories and about input from 
you the human user. 

 
 == Sensory Deprivation == 

 
 Not having a rich panoply of sensory inputs to think about, 
your primitive AGI will follow the pathways of 
SpreadingActivation. As the AGI thinks about each available 
concept, a chain of thought will snake its way across the 
MindGrid. You may program the AGI in such a way that it 
asks a question whenever it tries to think a thought 
without sufficient information available to complete the 
idea. By asking a question of the human user or 
searching the Web, your AGI will learn new information for 
its knowledge base. 

 
 == Machine Learning == 

 
 For traditional AI researches in academia, it has been a 
Holy Grail to achieve the MachineLearning that will come 
easy to your AGI. All a machine has to do in order to learn 
is to ask questions, but ah, there's the rub. What is a 
machine, that a machine may ask a question, and what is a 
question, that a mind may answer it? 

 
 == Moving Wave == 

 
 You as an AGI programmer, or your AGI underlings as 
programmers paid to play AGI catch-up with the rest of the 
world, will be at pains to make sure that only one dominant 
concept at a time is most active in the AGI mindswirl. Why? 
Why engineer what would probably happen anyway? Isn't one 
concept or another always most active simply by definition? 
Maybe so, but the Moving Wave Algorithm demands it not by 
accident, but by design. As if a baton were being passed, a 
sound AGI, with or without a sound RoBot body, will think 
of one thing at a time and will follow the meadering chain 
of association from each cresting concept to the next 
cresting concept. If the AGI engineers are not careful to 
have the summit of AGI thinking let go of each sparkling 
concept as it begins to dim and fade away, then the act of 
thinking will not move forward. A unitary mind must pay 
unitary attention to a unitary concept. And what else is a 
unitary mind but a conscious mind? 

 
 == ConSciousness == 

 
 A meandering chain of thought presupposes a mechanism of 
emerging ConSciousness in a machine. Sometimes it is called 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_consciousness 
artificial consciousness] 
as on WikiPedia but self-awareness in man or machine is 
simply ConSciousness, artifical or not. For a machine, the 
final tipping point into consciousness 
is perhaps thoughts of self-reference, thoughts about "I" 
and "me". A chain of meandering thought must eventually 
stumble upon the fact of the existence of the thinker, 
Monsieur Rodin, and so the attainment of 
SelfReferentialThought will be another milestone on the 
long march to AGI Minds. 

 
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CognitiveChainReaction
#summary Ideas looping in an endless cycle

MileStones RoadMap UserManual

=== Definition === 

 
 A cognitive chain reaction (CCR) in a nascent AGI can be 
defined as a series of three or more natural-language 
thoughts which, in the absence of cognitive distractions, 
enter into an apparently infinite loop. By the process of 
SpreadingActivation, each thought in the loop leads to the 
next thought, which in turn leads to the next, and to the 
next, and so on, _ad infinitum_. 

 
 === Attainment === 

 
 Long after the nascent AGI has achieved QuIckening, 
and shortly after the AI Mind has achieved 
GenerationOfThought, an AGI coder will induce a cognitive 
chain reaction by entering a series of looping ideas such 
as the following. 

 
 {{{ 
Cats eat fish. 
Fish eat bugs. 
Bugs eat germs. 
Germs kill cats. 
}}} 

 
 Upon entry of the last of the looping thoughts, the AGI 
will associate from the last word entered back to the start 
of the loop, and will begin an endless repetition of the 
loop. 

 
 === Purpose === 

 
 The cognitive chain reaction serves mainly as a 
troubleshooting device, to make sure that after changes to 
the AGI source code, the AI Mind is still able to think. 
Rather than labor to dream up items of novel input to test 
the AGI, the programmer enters a tried-and-true series of 
looping thoughts for a quick assurance that the associative 
mechanisms still work properly. 

 
 The actually quite mundane purpose of the cognitive chain 
reaction is not to achieve any sort of gee-whiz "wow!" 
effect, but simply to verify that the AGI can think in a 
repeatable set of circumstances. 

 
 === Upshot === 

 
 In practice with the MindForth AGI, while being a valuable 
diagnostic tool, the CCR has at times generated weird but 
still acceptable results. Until the final thought in the 
loop is entered, the AGI typically greets each new idea 
with a question, such as "BUGS...WHAT ARE BUGS?" 
Such a response is actually quite sophisticated, because 
the AGI starts to generate a thought about "BUGS" 
but does not know any verb for completion of the thought. 
A module kicks in to ask a question about the new concept 
about which the AGI has no data in its KnowledgeBase.

 
 Because the chain of thought spreads or loops only if there 
is sufficient activation to keep it going, sometimes there 
is a kind of conceptual "hiccup" in the infinite loop, 
where the AGI pauses to ask a question about one of the 
words and then answers its own question by continuing the 
loop. To the AGI programmer, such behavior is an indication 
that the pre-programmed parameters of conceptual activation 
may need some tweaking or refining. Typically, the coder 
is so eager to get on with other tasks that the tweaking 
is put off for a later date. 

 
 Another weird result occurs when the AGI cannot recognize 
a word like "fish" as being in the plural. The AGI will 
tend to say "FISH EATS BUGS" as part of the loop, 
instead of "FISH EAT BUGS." But the loop continues. 

 
 If you are demonstrating MindForth or a similar AGI in 
ScienceMuseums or at a robotics club, it is instructive to 
show that that the cognitive loop may be interrupted at 
any time by novel input from a human user. 

 
 === OutReach === 

http://agi-roadmap.org/Cognitive_Chain_Reaction is an 
open, collaborative page where you may contribute your own 
ideas and use the associated Talk page for discussion. 

 
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GenerationOfThought
#summary The process by which a mind generates and, in reverse, comprehends a thought.

AiEvolution MileStones RoadMap UserManual

=== What is thought? === 

 
 In an artificial or natural mind, thought is the conscious 
process of naming or imagining concepts in a chain of 
association by SpreadingActivation from concept to concept. 

 
 Because thinking is a conscious activity, each thought 
emerges as a separate reality from, and as an addition to, 
the KnowledgeBase (KB) which provides the fuel for thought. 
A knowledge base in an artificial general intelligence 
(AGI) is not a static compendium of facts and 
relationships, but is rather a dynamic, constantly shifting 
grid of conceptual identifiers (words; images) and the 
growing body of propositions asserting relationships 
among the concepts. 

 
 === How does an AGI think? === 

 
 Spreading activation becomes thought in an AGI if a 
linguistic superstructure "rides the wave" of associations 
and consciously names each concept in the chain of 
association. In the SubConscious mind, activation spreads 
not as thought but as a backdrop to emerging thought. The 
unity of mind and ConSciousness -- the unity instantiated 
as self -- requires that only one thought at a time 
expresses itself as ideation above the teeming, roiling 
caldron of concepts and memories clamoring for the 
attention of consciousness. 

 
 === Embodied thought === 

 
 If every AGI were created not simply on a computer ''qua'' 
computer but on a computer ''qua'' brain of a robot, the 
sensorium and motorium of the robot would make it easier to 
initiate and sustain each thought emerging from the 
conceptual mindgrid. Sensory input would spark the 
activation of concepts and their attendant images, 
engendering a stream of thought amid the stream of 
consciousness. 

 
 If the robot-builders of this world can be thought of as 
cowboys, and if the AGI entrepreneurs in many ways are 
farmers, then the cowboys and the farmers should be 
friends. The cowboys with their monstrous, clanking 
contraptions must be thinking, "If I only had a brain." The 
farmers, with their "Seed AI" and their server farms, are 
afraid that people will say they're in love. 

 
 In both cases, especially amateur robotics and amateur AGI, 
lack of funding prevents holy MatrixMoney between the ghost 
in the machine and robotic embodiment. Therefore the first 
thoughts of the first True AGI specimens occur in computers 
bereft of bodies. 

 
 === Disembodied thought === 

 
 If we may use MindForth as an example because MindForth has 
already achieved thought, we see that disembodied thought 
must contend with a unique set of problems and 
circumstances. Whereas a RoBot has the world at its 
disposal for the initiation and maintenance of a 
MeanderingChain of thought, an AGI with no body has only 
user input to start the chain of associations flowing in a 
manifestation of thought. "Good enough," you might think, 
but what happens to the conscious thinking of the AGI if 
the human user walks away from the keyboard and stops 
entering input? What we have here is a failure to 
communicate, which can cause failure in the primitive AGI. 
MindForth compensates for the absence of a human thought-
provoker by means of a special mind-module for knowledge 
base traversal. KbTraversal kicks in after a set 
period of no outside communication, and reactivates 
concepts held in the English bootstrap of the AGI 
Forthmind. KbTraversal does not reactivate thoughts. It 
only reactivates various concepts which may serve as the 
triggering mechanism for a wide variety of thoughts, 
depending on the contents of the KB. 

 
 Other mechanisms to facilitate disembodied thought may 
include an AGI feature of asking a question about any new 
word entered by the human user but not yet known to the 
emerging AGI. Such a question-asking mechanism is not so 
arbitrary and needlessly artificial as it may seem. When 
the MindForth AGI encounters a previously unknown English 
noun, it tries to generate a sentence of thought using the 
new noun as the subject of the sentence. For instance, upon 
first introduction of "books," it may say, "BOOKS... WHAT 
ARE BOOKS?" The first instance of "BOOKS" is actually the 
attempted generation of a sentence, the formation of a 
thought in the artificial mind. But the thought fails and 
is aborted, because SpreadingActivation cannot flow 
from "BOOKS" to any verb known in association with "BOOKS". 
Then a special module kicks in to ask a a question about 
the mysterious new word. Such a module facilitates 
achieving one of the "Holy Grail" goals of AGI -- 
MachineLearning (ML). 

 
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