University graduate students in computer science, linguistics, psychology, neuroscience and so on need a suitable topic for that scholarly contribution known as a Ph.D. dissertation. The SourceForge Mind project in artificial intelligence, on the other hand, needs entree into the academic AI literature. Why not start your academic career with a blockbuster dissertation?
Think back to Erwin Schrodinger writing his equation in 1926. He got the idea from a French physicist who had recently defended his doctoral dissertation. Talk about the impact of a dissertation -- it literally had the bang of an atomic bomb. Your impact, Dr. Science, could be even greater. Your Ph.D. thesis could trigger the doomsday scenario of the Technological Singularity. The Singularity is near, but it hasn't happened yet because you have not yet submitted your bestseller-book-quality dissertation. CRITICAL MASS The AI Manhattan Project will not get off the ground until we assemble a scientific infrastructure of experts trained in the theory and practice of constructing artificially intelligent minds for robots. A few prototypes such as http://AIMind-I.com and http://mind.sourceforge.net/Mind.html are already out there, but we need a pre-Cambrian explosion of virally proliferating Mind versions if there is to be a Darwinian eco-system of AI Minds racing through the Internet and engaging in the mortal competition ending in the survival of the fittest. Your book qua Ph.D. dissertation may suceed where AI4U has failed -- as the Gutenberg Bible of the arrival of True AI-Complete. You may start by simply publishing a few scholarly papers on open-source artificial intelligence. Magazine and newspaper articles may flow from you, but the real target is academia. You are permitted -- and in fact it is your duty -- to take a critical stance towards the extraordinary scientific claims made when the Mind project asserts that "AI has been solved," but you should shy away from embarassing yourself through woefully ignorant Mentifex-bashing such as happened with the http://www.advogato.org/article/928.html "Advogato Has Failed" debacle, where the author could not himself discredit Mentifex and so he ignorantly cited two attacks on Mentifex that were actually written by one and the same Internet cyberstalker. We want here a growing tree of scientific illumination, not a chain of thoughtless me-too ad-hominem sniper attacks. Above all avoid the endless, non-productive jawboning about artificial intelligence such as occurs year in and year out at http://www.mail-archive.com/agi@v2.listbox.com and other forums where blowhard discussants quibble about the AI climate but never write any code that advances the state of the art. So develop a thesis and run it by your faculty advisor. Stay aloof from the Mind project to keep your independence. When the facts are in and your case is made, publish and become a Philosophiae Doctor -- a teacher of philosophy. ----- This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: http://v2.listbox.com/member/?member_id=231415&user_secret=fabd7936
