From: James Rogers (jamesr@best.com)
Date: Thu May 09 2002 - 13:29:28 MDT
On Wed, 2002-05-08 at 18:23, owner-extropians@extropy.org wrote:
> From: "Mentifex" <uj797@victoria.tc.ca>
>
> Context switching is a big problem in the Seed AI that I am coding at
> http://mind.sourceforge.net/index.html in JavaScript for Microsoft Internet
> Explorer. When the lightning-fast Robot AI Mind is conversing with you, the
> perhaps-like-me slow-thinking human user, there is a danger that the
> thoughts
> of the AI will race far ahead of the conversational context, so that the AI
> can barely remember what you just said to it.
Ridiculous. We've been dealing with this problem since the invention of
the first interactive terminal, and I have a hard time believing that
anyone would seriously consider this an issue. You are projecting
issues and limitations specific to the human mind onto the general case
of computing machinery, which is generally a fallacy as far as AI
research is concerned.
Let me put it this way, if context switching is a "big problem" in the
Seed AI you are coding, I would suggest that you SERIOUSLY re-evaluate
your architecture because the one you have is broken.
-James Rogers
jamesr@best.com
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