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### Welcome ###

This WikiPage is your guide to the MindForth AI project and a
bulletin board of explanatory information to alert you to
some administrative policies which cause MindForth to be
different from your typical OpenSource software project.


### Code ###

The free AI source code is being released as a ForthMindTextFile at

http://code.google.com/p/mindforth/wiki/ForthMindTextFile

for the following reasons, ranked from most to least important.

  1. AI evolution demands forking the code into maximum variegation.
  1. Forth programs are executable scripts, not compiled source code.
  1. The MindForth AI project originates from a "Poor Man's AI Lab" with hardware too obsolete for handling source-code data-transfers.


### Join ###

Do not join the mindforth project; co-exist instead. Open a Google Code AI project with at least one "label" held in common with mindforth.


### Documentation ###

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### InVitation ###

The Google Code MindForth (GC/MF) project needs volunteers who will
go into the #ai@irc.freenode.net chat channel and answer questions
about the technical and theoretical details of MindForth AI.

http://instituteofgeneralintelligence.tk/chat -- another Chat site.

### InstantAccess ###

You could go into #ai Internet Relay Chat (IRC) right now
via http://www.mibbit.com and commence chatting, but proper
Netiquette requires that you first lurk a bit and familiarize
yourself with topics under current discussion.

### PsyOps ###

You do not need to install a chat client on your computer.
You may simply visit

http://www.mibbit.com

and click on the item to begin chatting. When you see
the access screen for chatting, you use the "Search" function
to find and click on **#ai@irc.freenode.net** to join the ai chat.
You may at first have a random "nickname" like mib\_2x4sf2rz but you may enter
/nick yournewnick to change to the real nickname you want to have.

Be aware that your comments on #ai IRC chat are logged for ever and ever
at such websites as

http://tunes.org/~nef/logs/ai/09.06.14

in real time. In fact, you may inspect the real-time log page
by visiting an old log page and then adjust the date to today
in your Web browser. If you see AI topics being discussed that
interest you, you may use http://www.mibbit.com to jump into the discussion.


### CyberSpace ###

http://ai.neocities.org/AiSteps.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mibbit

http://wiki.mibbit.com/index.php/Main_Page

http://wiki.mibbit.com/index.php/MibbitsBrain

http://twitter.com/freenodestaff

http://twitter.com/mibbit


### MemeSpace ###

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AiEvolution.md

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### Premise ###

This WikiPage on AI Evolution presupposes and presumes that MindForth is a starting point for AI evolution. Other AI projects may mature into functioning artificial minds and spawn alternative branches of AI evolution, at which point the field of OpenSource AI proliferation will broaden to include each original BloodLine.

### Diversity ###

Whereas in most OpenSource software projects great care is taken not to "fork" the evolution of the software over time, the forking and branching off of a new species of AiMind is a positive and beneficial occurrence in AI evolution. Therefore no attempt is made at "version control" of the MindForth AI software. Anybody who would like to tweak and release a diverging BloodLine of MindForth is welcome and encouraged to do so.

### Dormancy ###

Because MindForth has always been released publicly since its inception around 1998, there are copies of MindForth floating around and lying dormant on obsolescent computers all across computerdom. Each latent, dormant copy of MindForth is potentially a ReIgnition of the flame of AI evolution. MindForth could fade from the scene for decades and suddenly reappear when some Prometheus rediscovers the source code and tweaks it into EvoViability.

### Secrecy ###

Not only could a moribund MindForth come back to life from a junkyard computer harboring its metastatic source code, but an even more likely scenario of disruptive evolution could emerge from any closely held AI CryptoLab that has latched onto a mature form of MindForth and accelerated its evolution by throwing money and manpower at it. The very threat that some organization may be developing MindForth in competitive secrecy is enough to warn corporate entities of the dangers of being left behind in the AI Minds Race.

### WotNot ###

The fact that an AiMind is potentially immortal complicates AI evolution beyond the sense in which HomoSapiens has always seen evolution as a process in which the ancestors die out while the ProGeny multiplies.

### MemeSpace ###

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### Shoestring ###

The most primitive level of AI Funding is at the extremes of individual vis-a-vis teamwork; youth vis-a-vis maturity; and low net-worth vis-a-vis opulence. If you are a student or an IndependentScholar wanting to work on AI with minimal funding, there are ways to do it.

- Work on some DayJob to finance your AiProject.

- Use second-hand computer hardware to save money.

- Use OpenSource software to create OpenSource AI.


### PreSolution ###

If you do not think that AiHasBeenSolved and you are eager to solve the problem of AI, then your opportunities for AI funding consist mainly of having the proverbial DayJob to support your efforts. Try to achieve some overlap between the DayJob and the AiProject. For instance, if your DayJob involves computers, you may learn things and gain access to things useful for your AiProject.


### PostSolution ###

If you accept the assumption that AiHasBeenSolved with MindForth and its derivative implementations, then you already have a positive MindSet that may enable you to generate AI Funding for your own career at the dawn of AiEvolution. Consider the following options for generating CashFlow while you advance the StateOftheArt in AI.

  * You let it be known that, for a very small fee, you will install a customized AiMind in JavaScript on the WebSite or LapTop or DeskTop of whoever wants to have an AI with a unique KnowledgeBase -- that you will code for your grateful and appreciative client.

For example, if a friend of yours wants an AiMind to liven up a WebSite, you code the DoxoLogy of your friend right into the inerasable KnowledgeBase. Then you seed the MindModule of KbTraversal with particular concepts that will engender thoughts and ideas telling websurfers interesting tidbits about your illustrious friend. For instance, you pre-ordain that KbTraversal will activate either the TrueName or the NickName of your friend as a ConCept lodged in the vault of the innate KnowledgeBase. Then periodically, when things are otherwise quiet due to lack of InterAction between HumanUser and AiMind, the CustomAi will suddenly think outloud the name of your friend with either a statement of fact or a question of inquiry. People all over the world who have clicked on the AiMind link and now have your friend's CustomAi up on their screens, will be treated to a revelation of the wondrously special nature and all-around excellence of your friend (or corporate client). Subjects dear to the heart of your friend may also be concepts reactivated by your coding of KbTraversal. Suppose, for instance, that your friend or business client is especially interested in, nay, totally fascinated by the concept of extended warranties and service contracts. All you as an AiCoder have to do is prime the KbTraversal module to rotate through the conceptual activation and thought-generation of ideas about the concepts of "warranty" and "service". The AiMind will bring up each engineered topic, and users will have the opportunity to make statements or ask questions about each topic of thought. If you code "roses" into the KbTraversal as something to think about, people who love roses (all those people in Pasadena CA and Portland OR) may "hang out" at your friend's WebSite to talk about roses with the artificial AiMind. Along the way, money will flow your way to fund your noble efforts in AiEvolution.

  * For a teensy-weensy fee, you install an AiMind in somebody's RoBot.

Most RoBotics club members are more interested in HardWare than in SoftWare. They like hands-on experience with making things go. You, however, are a more contemplative type and you are more interested in the ultimate mysteries of mind and thought. You let it be known that you would love to install an AiMind in somebody's robot for a ridiculously small fee -- just enough to pay for your daily coffee and your subscription to ArtificialGeneralIntelligence Magazine. It is a match made in AiHeaven, as your friend or client plies you with cash to keep up the good work of adding just one more feature to the AI Synapture of the insipient RoBot.

In either of the above choices, building up an AiMind for a small fee can lead to a BigTime career in BigAi.


### MemeSpace ###

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AiHasBeenSolved.md

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### Eureka ###

To say that AI Has Been Solved is a pithy, dramatic way
of saying two things at once -- that the GrandChallenge of AI
was a problem for the human intellect, and that a solution
was found to the problem qua problem.

### PreHistory ###

The development of an AI BrainTheory was the main component of the solution
to AI, because nobody could build an AiMind without having a theory of how
the mind works. Having solved AI in BrainTheory, MentiFex naively thought
that all he had to do was tell the world about the solution, and
forthwith one AiMind after another would get built by modern industrial
society. What MentiFex was not counting on was the suppression of
new ideas by the clubby AiEstablishment and the next-to-impossible
difficulty of getting intelligent human beings to understand the complex
solution-ideas that were vexingly difficult to come up with in the first place.
The IndependentScholar MentiFex submitted the solution-in-theory
to a series of scientific journals and was rejected by one journal
after another for always a different reason. Since the initial rejection
was for the solution being speculative, the last straw, that broke
all patience with journals, was rejection by a journal calling itself
"Speculations in Science and Technology." But when MentiFex, having
solved AI on his own, decided to tell the world about it on his own
with or without the help of journal editors, he then learned that
Einstein was right in saying that new ideas are treated badly by
mediocre minds.


### BackLash ###

It was a real CatchTwentyTwo, Joe. Everybody knew that AI was too
hard a problem to solve, and so therefore, the more you insisted that
you had solved AI, the more evidence you were displaying of your own
pledge membership in the Kook-of-the-Month Club. MentiFex gradually
realized that it was not enough to solve AI in theory; it was also
necessary to solve AI in software -- with a working, thinking AiMind.
So MentiFex set about coding Amiga MindRexx in July of 1993 and told
UseNet about it in November of 1994 when the AiMind thought its first
thought. Ho hum, was the response of the general InterNet -- except
for the Forth programming community of CompLangForth on UseNet --
where there was a flurry of initial excitement.


### Proof ###

After several false starts in Forth on the Amiga 1000 computer,
MentiFex decided to spend the year 1998 translating (porting)
MindRexx to MindForth. The creation of MindForth as TrueAi took
not just one year, but ten years -- bringing us up to 2008.
Meanwhile, however, most of the Forth community had given up
on MentiFex and MindForth, making both entities the butt of
jokes and the subject of MentifexBashing testimonials about
what a NetKook MentiFex was.


### Advogato ###
Posted 1 Apr 2005 at 11:37 UTC by MentiFex

> Mentifex writes that the sideways integration of sensory input with a conceptual mindgrid is the solution to artificial intelligence.

> Read more... (8 replies)

http://www.advogato.org/article/832.html


### WikiPages ###

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### DisClaimer ###

Only a few techniques and hardware issues require standards in AI.
For most of AI, just as for Darwinian evolution in the origin of
species, standards are counterproductive and straightjacketing.
We promulgate here only a few standards to help AI Mind designers
hasten to the point of tossing out all the rules and all the standards.


### Neuromancing the Stone ###

If we decree [64-bit](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/64-bit) computing platforms
as an ideal environment for developing AI, it is not a standard set in stone.
It is avuncular advice for an incipient AI shop trying to decide
whether to adopt 32-bit or 64-bit software and hardware. If you
choose the 64-bit technology that AI is not just migrating towards
but actually _evolving_ towards, then you avoid the eventual disruption
of a change-over from 32-bit to 64-bit. You bring your AI closer
to the leap from DeskTop computer to SuperComputer.
Pragmatically, you provide your AI Mind with the practically unlimited
memory space of a 64-bit addressing scheme. It is not a standard but
a truth universally acknowledged, Jane, that information wants to be
free and AI wants 64-bit memory. Therefore an AI pioneer in possession
of a fortune will spend it on 64-bit technology.


### BridgeWare ###

Some quasi-standards in AI exist merely for convenience, not
for the strangulation of AI innovation and independence.
A case in point is the notion of robot BridgeWare as found at

  * http://code.google.com/p/robotbridgeware

on Google Code. By offering some standard interfaces between
robot AI software and robotic physical EmBodiment, BridgeWare
makes it easier for the soul of a new machine to take control
of the new machine. Before railroads in the United States were
standardized as to their track width, four or five different
measures held sway in different parts of the country. Then
standardization in railroad gauges led, a hundred years later,
to standardization in shipping containers that unified the
transportation modalities of sea and land.


### OpenCog ###

An ambitious Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) project like
OpenCog may declare its own internal standards at

  * http://opencog.org/wiki/Development_standards

for all participants to be aware of. Standards of excellence in
such a case are not standards of uniformity or monotony. We leave it
to the universities and the gaming industry to push for deadening,
anti-freedom standards that numb the mind and suppress creativity.


### BrainTheory ###

If we put forward a BrainTheory as a model of the mind for creating
TrueAi, we are not suggesting that all AI Minds should be the same.
Only commodities should have uniform standards of execution.
Competing entities, such as AI Minds co-existing in CyberSpace,
need to differentiate themselves with different features and
different abilities for the sake of progress by trial and error.
In AI, do not standardize. Instead, diversify!


### CyberSpace ###

  * AI Interface Standards Committee:
  * http://sourceforge.net/projects/ai-standards/
  * http://www.igda.org/Committees/ai.htm

  * Archives of previous versions of AI Standards:
  * http://mentifex.virtualentity.com/standard.html
  * http://mind.sourceforge.net/standard.html

  * UseNet NewsGroup on miscellaneous standards in computing:
  * http://groups.google.com/group/comp.std.misc


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