The SourceForge Mind project in artificial intelligence needs to
launch a Darwinian evolution of graphic displays of deep thought.
The field is so ripe, and the opportunities are so many, that we
appeal not for individual graphic artists to join the AI project
but rather for independent graphic experts to create their own
portrayals of what happens deep inside an artificial Mind when
it thinks or dreams or feels an emotion.
Accordingly the graphic opportunities are listed here in the order
of how difficult they are to implement, from the most simple to the
most complex -- the most futuristic and science-fictionesque.
LEVELS OF COMPLEXITY TO BE PORTRAYED
- Spread of activation in subject-verb-object sentence-generation.
- Mindgrid activation of concept-fibers and associative tags.
- Differential display of vertical tiers: consciousness; subconscious; noise.
- MRI: Memory Resonance Imaging of ripples upon introduction of an alien idea.
- Color-coded display of emotions and their influence upon deep thought.
- Color-coded display of interplay of ideas during machine translation (MT).
- Display of visual images being accessed by the AI Mind in its memory.
- Replay of linguistic words and musical melodies from AI Mind memory.
- Depiction of dreams being dreamt by an artificial Mind.
- Depiction of shared dreaming by two artificial Minds in concert.
- Depiction of a Vulcan mind-meld by two AI Minds sharing common memory.
- Security monitoring of a mission-critical AI Mind for untoward "events."
OLD TEXT ON ITS WAY OUT
The most advanced Open Source AI Mind project in the world
needs the science fiction film makers of tomorrow to make
graphic displays of artificial thinking in progress today.
Imagine yourself interacting with an artificial Mind and
being able to look inside that Mind and seeing the awesome power
of thought itself racing hither and yon across the AI mindgrid.
How much more science-fictionesque can you get? From now on in,
as we approach the
Technological Singularity brought to you
free of charge and freight-on-board by the SourceForge
Mind project,
it is possible not only to create artificial Minds in almost any
computer programming language, but also to insert hooks and tags
into the AI Mind source code so as to make the mind machinery
visible to onlookers. All we need is graphic artists who will
dare to stretch the limits of their imagination in devising ways
and means to burst the psychic mental pathways wide open and
hallucinate publicly in movie theaters and AI labs where the
living, thinking robot brains pulse and quiver with each thought
and each scintilla of artificial emotion. Color coding? You betcha!
Let four million colors surpass the visual acuity of the human eye.
Animation? Sorry, it's not just animation, it's the real thing,
the Thing That Ate The Pentagon and mesmerized the general staff
with its strobing, probing mass hysteria of superintelligence
trying to reason with the woefully inadequate mind of man who
created it but could not keep up with it. At stake here are
Pulitzer prizes, Emmy awards and Oscars, careers a go-go and the
approval of your co-workers mingled with the hatred of the envious.
But let's start out simple. Point MSIE (Microsoft Internet Explorer,
por favor) at the AI
Mind in JavaScript and observe how the AI thinks
in Tutorial Mode. Think you can execute the thought-display better?
Then what's stopping you?!! If you need to, abandon
JavaScript and
recode the entire AI Mind in your favorite computer graphics display
language. Standards? We don't need no steenking
standards. While
you're at it, make your own version of the AI so much better than
all previous versions that it and you become the king-of-the-hill
that everybody else is trying to dislodge and surpass. Be the best!
Be the challenge that everybody else has to emulate or evaporate.
The JavaScript
Mind.html shows only the spread of activation from
concept to concept during the course of thinking. We need to show
an entire conceptual mindgrid in a multicolored graphics display,
so that the engineers and the thought-police and the throngs of
movie-goers may see quiescent slumbers of the sleepy mind punctuated
with storms of Beethovenesque fury and creativity. By the way, are you
by any chance a reincarnation of Igor Stravinsky or Lord Matchabelli?
We need not just graphics display, but musical freaking accompaniment!
Tone poems? You bet your twelve beeps and bangles, Joe.
Fortunatam natam te artifice Romam. Ars gratia artis. Vita brevis!
And you do not have to join the SourceForge Mind project. Roll your own,
and set the world afire like Stravinsky did in Paris a 100 years ago.
Hey you, John Lennon! Can you imagine a movie where the audience walks in,
and they think they are going to see a frozen, unchanging work of art
like "War of the Worlds" or "Forbidden Planet" and they sit back
complacently ready to judge the skill and talent of the studio.
But the movie involves an artificial brain, and the AI brain is not
something of the past, recorded immutably in the digital data stream,
but rather it is an artificial Mind right there in the theater with them
and they, the audience, are but actors on a stage playing their role
in interaction with the god-machine that you the graphic artist created?
Oh, Johnnie, you died too soon and we hardly knew you.
Maybe this kind of computer graphics work is too dangerous.
Maybe we should not venture into fields of unleashable forces
too mighty and too powerful for our own good as the dominant species
on a green little planet, a speck of blue in the Universe and Dr. Einstein.
I dunno. You decide. If you go for it, put your work on a Web site somewhere.
Write your speech for the Academy Awards. Just remember -- the bar has been
raised, the genie has escaped from the bottle, and Things will never
be the same.