When I addressed the Board of Regents of the University of Washington on December 12, 2019 -- see https://www.washington.edu/regents/minutes/meeting-minutes-for-2019 -- I told them that I was protesting against Husky Football brain injuries because I had spent my adult life studying the human brain and working as an independent scholar in artificial intelligence (AI). The chairman of the Board of Regents was at first quite talkative, interrupting me once to state that he had graduated from our alma mater one year ahead of me, and interrupting again to admit that he, too, had served in the U.S. Army after graduation. But he made no further comments as I revealed that I was loading up the Guest Workstations downstairs in the library with my various AI programs that think in English and Latin and Russian, so that passers-by might see the Symbolic AI in action and stop to inspect the software. Those demos went on for a couple more months, until I made the mistake of commandeering all seven workstations in a cluster with my AI, and someone complained, and I was forbidden to load my software onto even a single workstation.
The software is no good, anyway. It can think and reason with concepts, but just barely. My main justification for working further on thehopeless Symbolic AI project is that it gives me something to do in my twilight years, my Goetterdaemmerung, in the foolhardy hope that somebody smarter than me and more resourceful than me might take over a branch, a fork, of the open-source AI project and produce a better thinking Mind and a Truer AI than my feeble efforts have yielded. So therefore, Friends, Regents, Countrymen, Yours Truly took the step recently of adding a Live Traffic Report widget onto about eighty-eight AI webpages so as to see the various worldwide place from which Netizens were making not the pilgrimage but perhapsthe boredom-driven homage not to Catalonia but to Mentifex AI. And the results were astounding, Oh Force Majeure, Oh Avant Garde of the AGI Anabasis. A secondary page of the Life Traffic report was showing a Mercator Projection of the known world with little bombshells going off in real time when an eager AI aficionado landed on one of the 88 AI webpages. Many visits have been from Russia and from former Soviet Republics of the former USSR, since your AGI-nogoodnik has been posting his links in the gotai.net Russian-language AI forum. Assembled as we are on the most prestigious AGI Mail-List of cyberspace and noosphere coordinates, we contemplate Symbolic AI as based on words of natural language serving as symbols representing concepts. In our lousy, no good, almost worthless AI software that we hope to fob off onto the better minds and deeper pockets, a word coming into each AI Mind is either recognized as a known concept or not recognized and therefore treated as a New Concept. http://ai.neocities.org/OldConcept.html -- handles old concepts. http://ai.neocities.org/NewConcept.html -- creates new concepts. ------------------------------------------ Artificial General Intelligence List: AGI Permalink: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/T1632b2db76dafcd5-M87c16b3a7db3f7c7a8042512 Delivery options: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription
