AI has been solved

From: Arthur T. Murray (uj797@victoria.tc.ca)
Date: Tue Jul 22 2003 - 05:09:37 MDT

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    AI has been solved. Or has it? Surf/lurk/re-turf the debate at
    http://www.ai-forum.org/topic.asp?forum_id=1&topic_id=8385v.)

    Response by Mentifex/ATM to a request for evidence of AI solution:

    http://mentifex.virtualentity.com/jsaimind.html is a solution because
    it is a thinking, functioning Mind that illustrates a Theory of Mind.
    The Mind-1.1 AI is very primitive, but it does indeed think. It is
    not a standard "chatterbot" that "fakes" the thinking in order to
    carry on a pleasant and amusing conversation with the interlocutor.
    The True AI carries on a maddeningly stupid conversation because
    it knows so little: a few innate concepts, and what you tell it.

    [A question of what the Mentifex AI can actually do.]

    Even before installation in a robot, an AI going just a little beyond
    http://mind.sourceforge.net/jsaimind.html -- AI4U Mind-1.1 -- can be
    built to embody a special knowledge base (KB) in any chosen domain.

    A mentifex-class AI such as Mind.Forth or a Mind.XYZ derivative
    can be installed in a robot as a mind aloof from its own motorium
    at first, then awakening like a human baby to its motor options
    as the quasi-parent human-in-charge "scales up" the motorium.

    [A question of how the AI might "scale up" into usefulness.]

    On the contrary, I (Arthur) am actually waiting for the various
    commercially available "hobby" robots to "scale up" to the basic
    http://mind.sourceforge.net/mind4th.html memory requirements :-)

    The popular LEGO (R) Mindstorms robot, which can already run
    http://www.hempeldesigngroup.com/lego/pbForth/index.html Forth,
    will be an ideal platform for Mind.Forth as soon as a scaled-up
    Mindstorms robot comes out with substantially more user-programmable
    memory space than the current (ca. 2003) limit of about 28K RAM.

    Give me a LEGO (R) Mindstorms that affords, say, 128 K of RAM
    for the robot hobbyist to load in both an AI Mind and its data,
    and I will hasten to release an initial AI native to the robot,
    i.e. one which thousands of robot-loving tinkerers will soup up,
    scale up and use for oneupsmanship at all the robotics meetings.

    The AI4U Mind-1.1 currently on the Web is merely a curiosity,
    a novelty, something worth of a desultory click-to-enliven.
    As soon as the commercially available hobby robots catch up
    just a little with the RAM memory and CPU width of a personal
    computer (PC) or even a personal digital assistant (PDA),
    then a basic Seed AI released into the robotics gene pool
    will become an uncontrollable branch of AI Mind evolution.

    Do NOT underestimate the unstoppable power of the amateur
    roboticist to take a primitive but free artificial Mind and
    to "Frankenstein" it into: Behold! The Singularity.

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