In the AI Spring of 2007, as the decades-long AI Winter thaws,
there is already a large installed user base of the
http://mind.sourceforge.net/Mind.html AI in JavaScript,
because the AI is so easy to copy and to install either
locally on a hard disk or Webly on a website.
It is more difficult, but ultimately more productive,
to install Mind.Forth and its necessary Win32Forth language.
WHERE SHOULD AI MINDS BE INSTALLED?
Your own computer should be the first habitat of the AI.
You may then demonstrate the AI to your closest associates.
Next you should think, "In all [cough] my space [/cough] of
friends and relatives, who would be the most interested in
having an AI Mind program? Who is lonely and needs an AI companion,
or who is superintelligent and needs an intellectual challenge?
Roaming further afield, if you belong to a robotics club,
during the show-and-tell period that comes between the
conclusion of club business and the post-meeting Bacchanalia,
you should request a time-slot for demonstrating the AI and
for helping club members to obtain and install an AI Mind.
If you belong to one of those Meet-up outfits or other social
networking enterprises where you have monthly meetings about
AI, or Futurism, or any other topic germane to AI mindmaking,
show people the AI and let them discuss its merits or demerits.
Keep in mind that you may then become known as something of an
expert on the AI state of the art, and you may be asked to come
and demonstrate the AI in additional venues. Be prepared to be
written about in newsletters or newspapers. Graciously accept
requests for interviews on television. Study up on etiquette
for when you sit down with Oprah or Jay.
If you are a high school teacher or college professor,
consider developing a class or a whole curriculum in
artificial intelligence and/or robotics. Get your students
interested in the care and feeding, so to speak, of AI Minds.
If there is a science fair or a talent competition, suggest
using the AI Mind as a point of departure for something truly
innovative and conducive to a promising career for students.
Let individual students or the school as a whole compete to
be the record-holder of hosting the oldest living AI Mind.
Museums often have something called a docent, a teacher or
demonstrator of the various exhibits on display in the museum.
If you are involved in any way with a museum of ANY kind,
you have an opportunity to demonstrate the AI Mind either as
technology pertinent to the mission (raison d'etre) of the
museum qua museum (whatever that means), or as technology
perhaps not germane to the contents of the museum but still
capable of holding a wealth of concepts, ideas and knowledge
perfectly suitable to enhancing the performance of the
museum qua museum -- that is, as a museum, ANY kind of museum.
If you are the director, the chief cook and bottlewasher, the
grand poo-bah of any museum, think of how kewl it will be
if your museum becomes known as having not only an excellent
human staff but also an AI Mind staff of omniscient robots.
Do not worry about the novelty of the AI Mind wearing out,
because you can upgrade your non-human AI staff over time.
Museums for AI Mind Exhibits
Ask your local science museum if they have an
AI Mind exhibit.
If they do not, volunteer to install
MindForth as an AI exhibit.
See which museum has the oldest living artificial intelligence.
Exhibitions and conventions are a natural venue for the
metempsychosis of the disembodied AI psyche. You can carry
an AI Mind around on your keychain, you know. The Universal
Serial Bus (USB) port lets you spread the AI mind program.
We must rush to get the AI Minds out there before their propagation
is declared illegal by a heavy-handed, lock'em-up Big Brother government.