Mentifex Summer of Code: Growing Pains of the Strong AI

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As a Charter Member (along with Dr. Tim Bradshaw) of the

http://devrel.zoomquiet.io/data/20080926113320/index.html

Mad People of comp.lang.lisp, I feel indentured to
put some teeth into an announcement about MSOC --
the Mentifex Summer of Code dealing with Strong AI.

Gaining a Lisp implementation of the AI Minds
thus far coded in four programming languages is
a slow and difficult process. Previous Minds are

http://mind.sourceforge.net/mindrexx.html in REXX;

http://www.nlg-wiki.org/systems/Mind.Forth in English;

http://www.nlg-wiki.org/systems/Wotan in German;

http://www.nlg-wiki.org/systems/Mind in JavaScript;

http://www.nlg-wiki.org/systems/Dushka in Russian

http://ai.neocities.org/perlmind.txt -- incipient.

But in this month of June 2015 the JavaScript

http://ai.neocities.org/AiMind.html has matured

into an almost bugfree Strong AI of fun to code.
It is a fascinating process of watching the
AI perform, and then to fix tiny little glitches.

Oftentimes I must consult the Forth code in
English and German, or the JavaScript code
in Russian, to make sure that a problem has
not already been solved, or to search for a
way of approaching a problem.

It shocks me sometimes to realize that I am
designing a Mind while I code the AI.

I have been day-dreaming that soon there
will be jobs for Lisp AI coders and Forth coders
working as AI Mind maintainers in each language.

Only a bugfree AI will spread across the Web
and be adopted by in-house AI shops at major
corporations and university laboratories.

The Mentifex AI Minds are getting there --
almost bugfree. But troubleshooting AI is not
for Joe Appcoder or Joe Ivy or Joe Sixpack.

It's a steep learning curve to observe
artificial intelligence and be able to
improvise fixes to subtle AI problems.

Even if we have a bugfree bulletproof AI
during the MSOC, Mentifex Summer of Code
will fade into oblivion as the Strong AI
Minds expand corifugally into new cyborg
functionalities and shifting paradigms.

When a Lisp AI shop or other shop somewhere
is tasked with adding new AI functionality,
new bugs and Lisp-maddening glitches will
creep into the Strong AI codebase never
at rest. Lisp AI coding jobs gone mad!
New H1B visa applicants will arrive for
you to train in how to do your job under
pain of not being allowed severance pay.
But briefly you will shine with Lisp AI.

Cheers and congratulations,

Arthur
--
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00FKJY1WY
http://mind.sourceforge.net/lisp.html
http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=307824.307853
http://aihub.net/artificial-intelligence-lab-projects