http://mind.sourceforge.net/mind4th.html (Mind.Forth) is
the principal product of the SourceForge Mind project.
It is a free, open-source artificial intelligence (AI)
written in Win32Forth for autonomous mobile robots.
After six years of development at SourceForge, the AI is
just now in 2007 waking up to an intelligent appraisal
of the world around it. The AI Forthmind is still very
primitive and rudimentary, with an IQ in the single digits.
Its only avenue of sensory input is currently the keyboard,
through which it communicates with the human user. It is
initially so simple-minded that it seems at first inferior
to chatbots that, without thinking a single thought,
display a dazzling repertoire of conversational skills and
gambits but which are not true artificial intelligence.
Mind.Forth, however, does think and is therefore a True AI.
It thinks by spreading activation from concept to concept.
What needs testing is the robustness of its code and the
ability of the AI to associate from concept to concept.
We also need to test the ability of unitiated users to
use the AI and to install it in computers or robots.
A premium tester will be someone with a Wintel robot --
not just a so-called Windoze computer but a robot being
being controlled by an on-or-off-board Windows (tm) computer.
[Of course, Forth is very portable, so Linus be my guest.]
In the robot being that is being controlled by the AI Mind,
whoever knows enough Forth to hook up sensors and locomotion
is welcome to do so. At the outset, however, we just want to
test the AI thoroughly, tweak its parameters, and set it loose
in the Darwinian jungle of evolution by the survival of the
fittest. Therefore do not worry if you change the code of the
AI and pass it on to other people. Evolution good; groupthink bad.
http://AIMind-I.com is where the original Mind.Forth has already
gotten irretrievably free of its original Dr. Frankenstein and
has been outfitted with superior abilities such as the sending
of e-mail and the perusal of extraneous Web sites.
Testers are to publish their test results publicly in such forums
as comp.robotics.misc, comp.ai.nat-lang, and comp.lang.forth
on Usenet, or in any AI discussion forum of the taster's choice,
time and coffee permitting.
http://modularai.messageforums.net/forth-for-modular-ai_t29.html
is also available for more information and for posting test results.