The AI Engine

resion I have not said anything about this is because this is an AI page. But agian I dont want to go in to a long speach about stuff. I will have my webcite done soon and then you can all go and see what i think for your serlfs.

Also Proof that humans are Evolving, Im taller than people before me in my family. My girlfriend has a lager chest than women before her. Growing and becomeing more complex is what its all about, and if you can sit there ans say that Humans are growing (in all forms) then your not looking at things I guess.

Crab & Rahz, I do beleive the greater plan is currently beyond our ken. Perhaps there are psychics or mystics who can observe it directly, and it would be an interesting AI that such people could come up with. But one thing we can be experts at is fooling ourselves- I wont deny that. And so I think that's our first goal in AI- to pass the Turing Test, to fool ourselves into believing it's real. We can fool ourselves into thinking an AI has free will until we know enough to know the difference between real and artificial free will.

On the second law, you're right Crab- it does make room for pockets of anti-entropy. My argument with it is that it states that in any closed system, the energy will run down and entropy will increase. But I dont think there's such a thing as a real closed system. And that's open to belief, as it cant be proven to not be the case. So you're right, I dont believe in boundaries, or determinism for that matter. But to get beyond such apparent paradoxes, you have to look to higher dimensions of reality where time comes closer to simultaneity.

I'd like to hear what Mike Hammer finds out. Keep me posted on what you hear.

Ender- I'm about to launch FreeSitesForAll.com. That might be a good idea for your site if you want low-cost hosting. Just a suggestion.

We're taller and bigger-busted than our predecessors for the simple fact that a lot more nutritous food is available to us now. It's not due to evolution since the cause isnt genetic.

Sir Rahz- You have some good ideas. I think that there is a very simple "engine" running the universe and all of reality. I think the things, people, viewpoints, times, and circumstances this engine can create are beyond count and measure. So discovering the engine I think would just open the door to exploration of areas we've barely dreamt of. And so I go on searching.

We assume that there is nothing beyond our senses, but clearly there is. What if we build a machine that can sense triple the range of frequencies than we can and crush them down into our range. Is it more intelligent than us? More aware? More conscious?

K Ender, I'll really try to stick to AI...

You know that "Random" feature in these BOTS that makes up for their spontaneous remarks and realness? Well eventually, it would be nice to key in some other factors that aren't so random.

The date, for instance, can affect us in more ways than are at first evident. If it's remembrance day, someone that remembers the war will react differently than someone who's never experienced it. If it's Christmas time, a youngster will be genuinely excited while it's parent will be rather depressed.

The weather, well the weather controls everything! Yet some of us aren't going outside that much any more... and others work the night shift in an underground parking lot and would prefer a quiet rainy night because everyone stays home.

I hate to compare our AI BOTs to a measly game, but surely you've all experienced the SIMs right? Or at least know what it is... Anywayz, they've set it up so you create you persona with certain degrees of playfulness, cleanliness, humor and a few other factors I can't remember now (can hardly remember anything since I found the SIMs nude patch). Actually, I haven't played in ages, but the idea was that your SIM would be in a pretty rough mood if it's the "Clean" type and no one's had time to do the dishes.

I didn't put this posting in the bug stomp forum because implementing this will not happen over night. This would take tremendous research and restructuring, I'm sure. But I think if we want to have true AI, it's decisions should be based on *knowledge*, *mood* and *something random* (until we prove that randomness doesn't really exist).

Then all of a sudden we've got "moody bots"... which is great! And even more real!

So, if we were to ask one of these moody entities why it was so silly, it would answer "I dunno, I was just built that way I guess"... Sort of how we explain our own moodiness and deal with it. If we asked it what it's f.... problem is today, it would also respond "I dunno, must be the weather or something". Or maybe it would have to be a strictly logical response and it would answer something like "Moods for AI beings are a subset of parameters and factors that are included within our programming to make us seem more real. My parameters are set to silly, yet today, nothing silly is happening. On the other hand, moods for humans are simply an unexplained royal pain in the ass... I can't say why you all went ahead and made BOTs moody!".

Timeline for us, Prof?

Seriously, couldn't it be something like this type of feature sparks "consciousness"? Or is it still just an imitation?

Mood we can do, and I plan on it. The little things that affect us in the outside world like weather and traffic, cleanliness and seasons can be simulated, but that's as far as it can go until we drop these Bots into some sort of Sim-World.

Attributing emotions to causes (and they will largely be social causes) wouldnt be too difficult to do. The very calculations that determined the emotion can be written out in terms of cause and effect.

That's it. We need a new forum. I suggest we call it "The moody AI" forum. (Just a suggestion though).

Well done Prof! B2B chat is awesome. Did you program in a loop recognizer or something? Cuz I noticed a loop in my transcript but it only repeated three times and then the chat ended.

Also great to be able to trace conversation backward...

Thanks, Crab. I was under the illusion that I had the time to work on it, but actually my email was getting eaten by my Mail program. But it freed up my weekend. I actually programmed that bit while hung over.

There's no loop-breaking besides the AI Engine's automatic randomizing and nonsense-recognition abilities. It must have been a natural goodbye.

The AI-to-AI is very revealing in that you dont get the generous interpretation people give to Bots when their response is a bit strange. You get to really see where your Bot needs work and where it excels.

I've been putting together synonym lists for the Seek words. For example, if you use "yes" as a Seek word, it'll find any of the followig now:

yes,yup,yep,you bet,uh huh,uh-huh,affirmative,sure,why not,okay,yah,yeah,always

I've done the same for "no" and "why" so far. Any requests for others that may be commonly used?

300 USERS BABY, WOOO!

Alright! Thanks everyone for coming.

Something to come- The Scrapyard. There's a lot of people who have made a Bot and then left it as a Newborn, and they're crawling all over the floor! So.. something must be done.

I agree that something has to be done. At the least newborns should not be able to chat. I get tired of reading I can't talk I'm just born or something along those lines.

If we could be able to "de-activate" ourselves and/or our bots with a "chat on/chat off" radio button in our profile (or something), it would solve a lot of these little issues.

In the case where a bot doesn't know how to speak, it can just be set to "chat off" until it's teacher enters at least 5 xnones and 5 xnonsenses or whatever quantity...

BOTs that haven't been taught anything new for a while (like about a month) could automatically be set to "chat off" until the next time they're updated

It would also help by reducing the number of times my bot get's "no time - I'm bot building!" in it's transcripts, if the user could just make their names disappear from the user list...