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Rationale
Why JavaScript? Why not a LispMind or a ProLog AI?
The question should be the other way around: Why NOT AI in JavaScript? It is a very popular language on the Web; millions of programmers are proficient in javascript; and it is especially suited for running a tutorial AI website that invites websurfers to look into a more powerful and more robust, full-featured artificial intelligence like http://code.google.com/p/mindforth/ -- coded in Win32Forth for robot embodiment as a mind inside a robot brain.
With AI in JavaScript, the "customer" just clicks a link that brings the Mind for MSIE into the Internet Explorer web browser, where the thinking AI takes up residence.
MindForth AI is more complicated because one needs the http://www.winzip.com compression utility to unzip Win32Forth from http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/win32forth/W32FOR42_671.zip?download -- which auto-installs into a C:\Win32For directory in Windows.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Client-side_JavaScript is a Wikipedia article on the client-side JavaScript in which the AI Mind.html is coded. Once the client-side Mind is on a Windows host computer as either a screen in the MSIE browser or as a downloaded file brought to life, it needs no further contact with the server whence it came.
DiaSpora
Any website may host a local copy of the JavaScript AI Mind.
Sometimes a Web domain will put the JavaScript Mind.html up as a page and it may no longer seem to think properly. Typically a simple precaution needs to be taken to make sure that the JavaScript AI Mind will function properly after being added to a pre-existing webpage that may already have its own JavaScript.
The necessary precaution is that each JavaScript "form" in the AI has to have the right identifying number, or the code will not run. As of 2009, the Mind.html program has just two "form" areas on the screen -- the Artificial Mind Control Panel as form zero, and the input-entry area as form one.
The "form" areas are assigned their numeric identifiers not by the programmer, but automatically on the basis of the order in which they appear in the visible HTML of the webpage, starting with zero (0) and going up to however many forms there are. Then the program code controls the behavior of each form area, such as displaying a blinking cursor ready to receive user input, with code such as
document.forms[1].ear.focus(); // Display a blinking cursor.
The one line of cursor code above shows up many times in the Mind.html javascript source code, because the "focus" always has to be set on user input. If your Web page already has its own javascript with a "form" element, you may have to go into the AI Mind code and simply change all the "document.forms[1]" numbers to "document.forms[2]" or "document.forms[3]" or whatever numbering it takes to get the AI Mind to start running and thinking. It will likely be the same number throughout the AI Mind code. Ask any questions in comp.lang.javascript on Google Groups Usenet. The slight change is worth the effort, because the AI Mind will make your webpage come alive with thoughts created by the AI Mind.
MetEmPsychosis
MetEmPsychosis is SoulTravel for artificial intelligence.
We are already halfway to AI SoulTravel with the JavaScript AI, because the thinking AI program moves from a server anywhere on the Web to a client host computer anywhere else on the Web. As the TechnologicalSingularity approaches, we may see AI Minds, coded in other languages, flit about the InterNet from one host to another, or to a TelePresence robot, or to a thousand host computers all waiting for a copy of the most advanced AI Mind to duplicate itself a thousand times in a thousand computers.
Just as human beings have hotels around the world, AI Minds could move from WebHost to WebHost, taking their files and SourceCode with them everywhere they go. If an AI Mind transfers its lifelong memories to a distant new host and deletes its original memory-files to complete the move, then a form of TelePorting as in StarTrek has occurred.
CyberSpace
* UseNet discussion group * http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.javascript
* user manual for JavaScript Mind.html artificial intelligence * http://mentifex.virtualentity.com/userman.html * http://mind.sourceforge.net/userman.html
* WikiPedia * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JavaScript * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Client-side_JavaScript * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML_5 * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Explorer
MemeSpace
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