A.I. in the news
Arthur T. Murray
>> ric...@hotmail.com (rick++) wrote on 9 Aug 2001:
>>> A fair amount about the Seattle conference this week,
>>> between Gate's keynote speech and the football-bots.
> uj...@victoria.tc.ca (Arthur T. Murray):
>> V.T.Y. Mentifex here went down on the first day (Sat.4.Aug.2001)
>> of the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence
>> and distributed several hundred flyers on Standards in AI (cf.
>> http://ai.createastandard.com ) and on the Open Source AI Mind at
>> http://freshmeat.net/projects/ai/ -- an artificial intelligence
>> evolving towards full civil rights on a par with human beings
>> and towards superintelligence beyond any human IQ.
>>
>>> Any hot topics this year at the conference?
>
> Any arrests? :-)
No, the psy-ops meme-flood caused no loss of personal liberty.
Most of the humanoids, except for a few very senior, snooty
Japanese roboticists locomoting in and out of RoboCup 2001,
were very receptive to the one-page Mentifex IJCPDAI flyers.
Even the illustrious Mike Hamilton, president of the co-sponsoring
American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), accepted
a leaflet and listened without complaint to my self-explanation.
Half an hour later, though, when I handed leaflets to two women
walking in, one of them turned out to be an AAAI functionary
who apparently thought that the IJCPDAI was a competing conference
(rather than just an invitation to discuss AI at coffee shops)
and she expressed the opinion that there was a "conflict of interest."
Very truly yours Mentifex here did not accept her suggestion
of walking over to discuss the matter with the Executive Director
of the AAAI, and instead I went to lunch at the Pike Place Market.
Seattle has had major AI conferences in 1987 and 1994, but surely
the IJCAI of 4-10 August 2001 will take on mythic propotions.
Already there has been military snooping on the AI home page at
http://www.scn.org/~mentifex/ -- as show by some log entries:
07/Aug/2001:07:22:58 - pentagon.mil - /~mentifex/jsaimind.html
07/Aug/2001:14:44:12 - af.mil - /~mentifex/aisource.html
07/Aug/2001:14:44:16 - af.mil - /~mentifex/jsaimind.html
07/Aug/2001:14:48:19 - af.mil - /~mentifex/index.html
08/Aug/2001:11:21:48 - army.mil - /~mentifex/
08/Aug/2001:11:22:02 - army.mil - /~mentifex/aisource.html
08/Aug/2001:22:18:15 - nosc.mil - /~mentifex/aisource.html
Of course, there may be no connection between IJCAI leaflets
and these military hits (strikes?) on the Mentifex Web site,
but remember: At the heretofore most important AI gathering
in all of recorded human history, for one brief shining spot
there stood the lone AI investigator and handed out diagrams
of http://www.scn.org/~mentifex/theory5.html "Brain-Mind:
Know Thyself!" to all nations and to all makers of robots.