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AI - 30 years promises, little delivery

1. Introduction
2. General Info
3. Agents & Robots
4. Neural Networks
5. Beyond AI - Gods and Consciousness Containers
6. The Future Coming

I admit, I think AI is a joke, many AI-scientists are so mechanistic they haven't figured out consciousness, the source of awareness and intelligence, has little to do with the brain where they think intelligence originates; in truth it's just expressed in there, and out of the misconception that the brain is the origin of intelligence a lot of AI hasn't gone nowhere significantly the last 30 years even it was promised almost we would see in year 2000 a human-like computer.

As many researchers realized, without publically admiting, that they cannot comprehend the nature of intelligence (nor coming even close to implement it with given technology) as it is tied close to the nature of consciousness and self-awareness and therefore AI' attempts have been scaled down and the hype has gone and more realistic and short-term developments are prioritized:

• automatic language translation, e.g. translate.google.com
• automatic summary creation out of a given text
• virtual agents e.g. for answering customer queries via speech-to-text and text-to-speech gateways
• complexer indexing systems to handle multimedia data (e.g. text, sound, video)

Some of those points have been partially implemented with impressive results (year 2001).

Artificial Intelligence 2. General Info

OpenDirectory: AI Overview of sites

Machines in the Myths The state of AI (article) with links and references

OpenCyc.Org Formal knowledge-base and "common-sense" reasoning (so their own claim)

Artificial Intelligence 3. Agents & Robots

BotSpot.Com Good resource site with overview of AI based bots

AliceBot.Org Robot framework with XML-based knowledge-base (AIML)

Artificial Intelligence 4. Neural Networks

OpenDirectory: AI: Neural Networks Overview of sites about neural networks

Simple Neural Net

A classic example of a neural-network is the binary-prediction setup: one has two keys, 1 and 0, the machine tries to predict it by learning a certain pattern humans have and hardly can escape. The keys are queue in an array which is interpreted as pointer as well, here the perl pseudo-code:  my $id;      while(1) {      my $guess0 = ($id<<1);      my $guess1 = $guess0|1;         my $diff = $predict[$guess0]-$predict[$guess1];      if($diff>0) {         # --- you are gonna type '0'      } elsif($diff<0) {         # --- you are gonna type '1'      } else {         # --- chances are even, guess via rand();      }      my $c = getkey();         $id = ($id<<1) | ($c eq '0'?0:1);      $predict[$id]++;   }

More Infos

An introduction to neural networks Pattern learning with the back-propagation algorithm AI Neural Networks FAQ The FAQ, useful Color Quantization using Neural Network Nice application and very convincing

Artificial Intelligence 5. Beyond AI - Gods and Consciousness Containers

Once it's realized that intelligence is result and an expression of consciousness through the mind and not vice-versa, then out of this understanding AI can focus on the implementation more or less complex mapping of input signals to output signals which is the function of the brain.

In order to develop true intelligence and awareness (consciousness of itself) it first is required to understand what consciousness is, what self-consciousness and how identity is created, and this goes far beyond AI or complex axiomatic systems, but starts in the metaphysical area (see SpiritWeb: Plato).

I think at some time we are able to develop containers (bodies) which will host spirit / soul / consciousness and animate a vehicle. My understanding is that all (physical) life has been developed by very advanced beings which e.g. are known as "elohim" (gods) as in the judaic based religions and portrayed in other religions as (demi-) gods or god-like beings - merely an expression of humans perceiving a superior intelligence - from my own personal understanding these beings developed the framework which manifested all physical matter in which became building-blocks for more complex physical structures to that extend to develop bodies or containers for distinct flow of consciousness in which beings experience uniqueness and identity, in a way, the human vehicle is a container in which consciousness or spirit can experience highest autonomy, even this is just a conceptual framework of autonomy, in truth there is no autonomy or separateness but just a particular focus, such as physical sensory, makes one believe you are the container or body, yet, you just temporary host it.

In this sense of consideration, we are beings which are so eager to replicate our own framework, the creatorhood inherented in all created seeks to replicate itself and inherents its qualities - creation which unfolds itself in all . . .

Artificial Intelligence 6. The Future Coming

'Living' robots powered by muscle BBC article

RepRap Projects Self-replicating machines

As mentioned above, the steps taken are creating articifical bodies, either clone humans, or grow bodies out of single cells under supervising. The big surprise they will encounter, the "machines" will have consciousness, at each cell it's own consciousness embedded; likely the one of the rat where the cell was detached from (Living robots). Tissue or cells aren't without consciousness, and cloned cells inherent the Spirit/Consciousness of the source; it will affect the being the cell was cloned from, and this will be another surprise.

                                                                                                                                   

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