Q. What is the likely future time-line of Mentifex AI? A. We can view the future development of Mentifex AI in stages. As of 2018, in Stage One the independent AI scholar Mentifex develops the open-source AI Minds in Perl for webservers, in JavaScript for tutorial purposes, and in Forth for embodiment in robots. Any one of the prototype AI Minds could lead to a break-out phenomenon where parties other than Mentifex either translate the existing AI codebase into their own version of AI for further development, or adopt and adapt one of the pre-existing AI Minds for their own in-house development of AI. It is also possible that a non-Mentifex developer of AI will simply borrow interesting ideas from Mentifex AI. A further possibility in Stage One is that various entities like Russia or China may in secret be developing one or more of the Mentifex AI Minds in a major effort to present the world with a fait accompli of advanced AI technology.
Stage Two is a scenario where entities other than the originator Mentifex latch onto one of the AI Minds and fork its further development into their own branch of AI evolution. These forking entities with their "Aw, fork!" attitude may be individuals working artistically in a garret or dweebishly and nerdily in a basement, coding AI day after day into the night and into the history books. Imagine a community of such people, sharing tidbits and brag-bits like the otaku zoku of Japan, boasting about some new feature that they add to their AI, or some form of robot embodiment, or their venture into quantum computer AI coding or biomass neuronal architecture. Not too likely, perhaps, but consider the other entities who create AI not in garrets or basements but in high school or university laboratories, or in corporate workspaces, or in government facilities. A corporate IT (information technology) department could establish an AI bunker apart from all other corporate functions and staff it with an initial team of department head, software development staff, AI safety oversight committee, and robotic embodiment personnel. The race is on. No one can predict here whether such AI efforts will remain open-source like the original AI Minds, or be released publicly, or be described in scholarly papers at public conventions. But all such corporate AI efforts will be subject to the same law of evolution: Survival of the Fittest. Stage Three is a Technological Singularity which by its very definition defies description. http://ai.neocities.org/mentifex_faq.html ------------------------------------------ Artificial General Intelligence List: AGI Permalink: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/T320edb232cbb0c95-Ma3fd02c227d20787bf329005 Delivery options: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription
