Flare for Open Source AI

Overview

   /^^^^^^^^^\  The AI Mind To Be Coded In Flare   /^^^^^^^^^\
  /  visual   \                     _______       / auditory  \
 /   memory    \                   /       \     /  memory     \
|    channel    |                 / English \   |   channel     |
|               |                 \ syntax  /---|-------------\ |
|      /--------|--------\         \_______/    |             | |
|      |  recog-|nition  |              |       |             | |
|   ___|___     |     ___V__         ___V_      |   ________  | |
|  /image  \    |    /      \  fex  /     \  rv |  /        \ | |
| / percept \---|---/Psi EnX \-----/English\----|-/ audNode  \| |
| \ engrams /---|---\concepts/-----\lexicon/----|-\ phonemes /  |
|  \_______/    |    \______/  fin  \_____/ utg |  \________/   |

See the mindloop.html diagram of how the AI is coded in software.

Flare Projects on SourceForge

The Flare language project -- totally independent from the AI
Mind project, but sharing similar goals -- is on SourceForge at
http://sourceforge.net/projects/flarelang/ -- Summary page; and at
http://flarelang.sourceforge.net/ -- the project Home page.

Implementing a Consensus of AI Theory

The artificial Mind diagrammed above has already been released at
http://sourceforge.net/projects/mind in the Artificial Intelligence category.

Although many of the hundreds of Open Source AI projects at Sourceforge
are technically more advanced than the Mind project and show far better
programming skills than is evident in the Forth and JavaScript AI Mind code,
the Mind project has several features which warrant its consideration
and candidacy as a working model of a seed AI to be ported into Flare
and other languages already being used in SourceForge AI projects:

Languages of Open Source AI projects at SourceForge

• ada.html Ada
• c.html C programming language
• cpp.html C++
• forth.html Forth
• java.html Java
• js.html JavaScript
• lisp.html Lisp
• perl.html perl
• prolog.html Prolog
• python.html Python
• ruby.html Ruby
• scheme.html Scheme
• st.html Smalltalk
• vb.html Visual Basic

The main attraction of the SourceForge Mind project is that
it is based on a uniquely original, linguistic Theory of Mind:

• theory1.html AI Mind Theory Journal, Part One
• theory2.html AI Mind Theory Journal, Part Two
• theory3.html AI Mind Theory Journal, Part Three
• theory4.html Natural Language through Abstract Memory
• theory5.html Brain-Mind: Know Thyself!

A consideration far less important than having a theory of mind
but still of value for rapid prototyping is the fact that the AI Mind
is thoroughly documented with respect to each mind module:

• Flowchart (essential for programming the AI in a new language)
  
  • mindloop.html flowchart of the main program loop
• Superstructure of Rational Mind (generic AI textbook chapters)
  
  • alife.html -- the main (pre-maspar) artificial life loop
  • security.html -- Security Module for the safety of human and cyborg alike
  • hci.html -- Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) Module
  • motorium.html -- (Robot Motorium Module)
  • volition -- (Volition Module for free will in robots)
  • think.html -- the Think module
  • english.html -- English Module for thinking in human language
  • ask.html -- Ask Module for asking questions
  • wtauxsdo.html -- wtAuxSDo Module for "what do S do?" questions
  • negsvo.html -- negSVO Module for negation of subject-verb-object syntax
  • auxverb.html -- auxVerb Module for reasoning with auxiliary verbs
  • svo.html -- SVO (subject-verb-object) syntax module
  • conjoin.html -- Conjoin Module for conjunctions ("and", "because", etc.)
  • v-phrase.html -- verbPhrase Module
  • n-phrase.html -- nounPhrase module
  • speech.html -- Speech output/display module
  • reentry.html -- reEntry Module
  • reify.html -- Reify Module
  • emotion.html -- (Emotion in Robots)
  • ego.html -- Ego self-assertion module
  • rejuve.html -- Rejuvenate Module for cyborg immortality
  • enboot.html -- enBoot English bootstrap module
• Sentient Mindgrid and Semantic Memory (see Brain-Mind: Know Thyself!)
  
  • sesorium.html -- Sensorium Module for sensory input
  • audition.html -- Audition Module for a sense of hearing
  • listen.html -- Listen Module for attention to input
  • audstm.html -- auditory Short Term Memory (audSTM)
  • audrecog.html -- audRecog Auditory Recognition comparator
  gusrecog.html (gusRecog module for gustatory recognition of tastes and flavors)
  olfrecog.html (olfRecog module for olfactory recognition of smells and odors)
  • tacrecog.html (tacRecog module for tactile recognition of touch and textures)
  • visrecog.html (visRecog for visual Recognition)
  • newcept.html -- newConcept machine learning module
  • oldcept.html -- oldConcept associative memory module
  • parser.html -- Parser Module for language comprehension
  devocab.html deVocab (German vocabulary)
  • envocab.html -- enVocab (English vocabulary) Module
  javocab.html jaVocab (Japanese vocabulary)
  • instiate.html -- Instantiate Module for creation of concept-fiber nodes
  • activate.html -- Activate Module for activation of concepts
  • spredact.html -- spreadAct Module for spreading activation
• Infrastructure of Program Elements
  
  • variable.html Table of AI Variables
• Manuals
  
  • progman.html Programmer Manual
  • userman.html User Manual
• Stubs for Future Development
  
  • sleep.html sleep

Since the SourceForge Mind already works in a primitive way,
there is no need to reinvent the wheel, and any programmer may
simply port or improve the pre-existing AI Mind source code:

• index.html View/ Source/ Artificial Mind in JavaScript
• mind4th.html Mind.Forth free AI source code for robots

Agenda

11oct2001 [X] Open this liaison page between the SourceForge Mind and Flare AI efforts.
_________ [ ] Link from here to a Flare Mind project that someone starts on SourceForge.
_________ [ ] Glean ideas from the port project back into the Mind project.

Resources for AI Minds and Flare

AI4U: Mind-1.1 Programmer's Manual and textbook of artificial intelligence
Advanced Book Exchange source of (out-of-print/used) First Edition AI4U

• http://dogbert.abebooks.com/servlet/BookSearchPL?ph=2&sn=0595259227
  Amazon.com USA source of AI4U: Mind-1.1 Programmer's Manual
  
• http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0595259227/
  Canada: www.amazon.ca source of AI4U: Mind-1.1 Programmer's Manual
  
• http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/ASIN/0595259227/
  England and United Kingdom source of AI4U: Mind-1.1 Programmer's Manual
  
• http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0595259227/
  France: www.amazon.fr source of AI4U: Mind-1.1 Programmer's Manual
  
• http://www.amazon.fr/exec/obidos/ASIN/0595259227/
  Germany: Amazon.de source of AI4U: Mind-1.1 Programmer's Manual
  
• http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/ASIN/0595259227/
  Japan: Amazon.co.jp source of AI4U: Mind-1.1 Programmer's Manual
  
• http://www.amazon.co.jp/exec/obidos/ASIN/0595259227/
  Barnes and Noble USA source of AI4U: Mind-1.1 Programmer's Manual
  
• http://search.barnesandnoble.com/bookSearch/isbnInquiry.asp?ISBN=0595259227
  iUniverse.com -- publisher's webpage of AI4U First Edition (hardcover)
  
• http://www.iuniverse.com/bookstore/book_detail.asp?isbn=0595654371
  
  On-line preview of Chapter 1 The Alife Module (pp. 1-9)
  
  • http://books.iuniverse.com/viewbooks.asp?isbn=0595654371&page=1

Slashdot search on Flare

• http://slashdot.org/search.pl?query=Flare

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Last updated: 21 June 2003
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