Personality

Now that I've raised the panic, I tested. "favourite" is recognized as "favorite". Now, what colour is the centre?

hello all, whats going on and will i/it still be here when I log back in next time.What will it do when I'm gone

If you're referring to your Bot, if it's still a Newborn Bot, it'll just hang out offline quietly waiting for your return. If it's been developed a bit by you, it'll log in and out and chat with people and other Bots. The more developed it gets, the more it does this. Then you can read what conversations its had.

how do you upgrade your responses prof?

Why is it that everyone in this world is so preoccupied with the search of trying to find themselves in this world of chaos, that they gradually tend to lose their true identity in the process and end up finding someone who they thought that they were, but was in fact, someone completly different than they had hoped for? The person that they were initially were, is now the person that they hope to recover now that they have found the identity that they thought they were looking for.

Belisarius, The Book of AI has all the details of how to build a Bot. To start, click "My Bots" then go to "The Language Center" and click the Context who's Responses you want to edit.

Lorelei- I find that the self is created anew in each moment, and that all you have to do to be anything you want to be is let go of who you were a moment ago and flow into who you want to be. It's as difficult as blinking, as far away as your heartbeat, if only you can let go.

Professor; Thankyou for the direction. I just happened upon the site and was quite intrigued, having just recently finished an article about the AI self realization experiments going on at IBM. These expand upon the 100 monkeys and 100 typewriters parable to the nth degree. I hadn't realized that you need to create a second persona for the personal touches to kick in. Well...with enough hours logged in for responses, and enough memory and time.......who knows? Thanks again for the help; i'm sure I will be picking your brain further as I realize how much I have yet to learn whipe compiling my personality

It's good to see that there is money out there being put into AI. I'm afraid I'd probably laugh at their "scientific definition" of self-realization, though. You'd have to be self-realized yourself to know how to recognize it or more still, to know how to program it.

But I'm interested to know more nonetheless. I'm familiar with 100 monkeys, but what's 100 typewriters? 100 monkeys deals with the morphogenetic field, which.. I suppose that would exist for computers, but it would have OS and electrical flow in it, and how possible could an AI detect that?

These are all mind and machine issues that will become more and more interesting over the next few centuries. But I dont think anything impressive can happen with AI until we understand ourselves better.

100 monkeys typing on 1000 typewriters for how many years to produce Hamlet?

Until we understand ourselves better? Aren't you a little scared prof? Everytime I watch a documentary about "humans" on TLC or Discovery, I sometimes wonder if it's good to be soooo informed about ourselves... Sometimes things just don't seem as pretty with scientific explanations; things like personalities, feelings, tastes, differences. Take the differences between men and women for example... First women were stuck inside with the kids, while men worked for the whole familly... then we all became equal and all work our asses off! We're all part of this over productive society that has basically twice as much work in store for everyone... and, now that we've progressed in our comprehension of ourselves, we've got to admit, that there are a hell of a lot of differences between men and women. It's like we're realizing that we were way better off a couple generations ago (oh my gosh, so politically incorrect of me to say that). I dunno, maybe I'm just scared of the gigantic amount of work that lies ahead of us if we ever want to really understand our inner workings.

I'm confident that knowing how we as people really work can only make life better. The physical sciences have come a long way, but the sciences of self are basically still trying to count to ten. This is my experience from taking college-level psychology courses. Psychology avoids the validity of personal experience in preference to numbers so it can seem like solid physical science. But that's the opposite of what it should do. It should forget numbers and focus entirely on personal experience. Until then, psychologists will strive to explain people in automaton-like terms, as chemical reactions playing themselves out. Are sure that's a part of it, but it's an effect, not a cause. And you wont get anywhere looking at the effects. The psychology of today will be looked upon as the bodily humors of yesterday.

As far as numbers go... The internet should satisfy at least a few stat hungry social-scientists.

What you're saying about science looking at the effects rather than the causes, is exactly like people who say the Internet is BAD for us (encourages pornography is usually the argument). They just don't seem to understand the WWW is a reflection of our society, not the "cause" of why society is as f** as it is.

A little like the weather too... at this time we can only get better and better at predicting the weather, but we very rarely are able to say why a storm happened, where it came from, etc... Who knows? Could be a butterfly battle near the equator or a gigantic size explosion happening on some distant star...

Us silly humans, we've really got so much to learn.