On Thursday, 3 September 2015 at 15:20:27 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> based on one hell of a gigantic assumption: That consciousness is a natural consequence of a sufficiently large neural net. It's a fine and interesting idea, but PURELY speculative, with zero evidence and not even any way of testing for evidence since, like you say, we can't even figure out the first thing about consciousness as it relates to ourselves and each other, let alone to machines.

Given a large enough table one could encode perceived human behaviour with a lookup-table... So all we need is a computer program that itself claims to possess consciousness. Would that be a scam? Maybe Asame Obiomah is a computer program claiming to be a man writing a computer program. Would that make it intelligent? Hm.

On Friday, 4 September 2015 at 09:15:16 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad wrote:
> On Thursday, 3 September 2015 at 15:20:27 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
>> based on one hell of a gigantic assumption: That consciousness is a natural consequence of a sufficiently large neural net. It's a fine and interesting idea, but PURELY speculative, with zero evidence and not even any way of testing for evidence since, like you say, we can't even figure out the first thing about consciousness as it relates to ourselves and each other, let alone to machines.
>
> Given a large enough table one could encode perceived human behaviour with a lookup-table... So all we need is a computer program that itself claims to possess consciousness. Would that be a scam? Maybe Asame Obiomah is a computer program claiming to be a man writing a computer program. Would that make it intelligent? Hm.

Maybe he'll come up with something that is more intelligent than your average tabloid reader :)))

On Wednesday, 2 September 2015 at 14:41:20 UTC, GrandAxe wrote:
> This is to inform the D Language community that the first viable general artificial algorithm is being written in D. It is called Organic Big data intelligence (OBI); the website is at www.okeuvo.com.
>
> Some of its capabilities are:
>
> 1. Ability to learn
> 2. Ability to analyse
> 3. Problem solving
> 4. Moral judgement
> 5. Ability to feel emotions
> 6. Free will
> 7. Consciousness
> 8. Self awareness
>
> D Language was chosen for its versatility. It is a language with high level syntax and low capabilities, as well as excellent performance and being open source.
>
> Unnetworked personal mobile devices are the target platform for the standard implementation of OBI. A demonstration release is scheduled for the end of this month (September 2015). The demonstration release will comprehend English prose only, later releases will be able to process input from other languages, as well as sensory input.
> OBI will be a mixture of open and closed source modules.
>
> To God be the Glory.
>
> Asame Obiomah

It's about time TempleOS got a bit of competition. The "consciously self-aware, morally judging OBI" VS. "the OS that talks with God". One of them might even cry (using the Emotions 0.91d module and the optional lawn sprinkler attachment).

On Friday, 4 September 2015 at 10:11:18 UTC, Chris wrote:
> Maybe he'll come up with something that is more intelligent than your average tabloid reader :)))

You should file a business-patent! That would be goldmine.

On Friday, 4 September 2015 at 10:28:07 UTC, Guy Gervais wrote:
> It's about time TempleOS got a bit of competition. The "consciously self-aware, morally judging OBI" VS. "the OS that talks with God". One of them might even cry (using the Emotions 0.91d module and the optional lawn sprinkler attachment).

Beware! The Holy Limit for TempleOS is 100.000 lines of code. I'm not exactly sure what happens when that limit is crossed, but I've heard that DMD is close.

On Friday, 4 September 2015 at 10:43:32 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad wrote:
> On Friday, 4 September 2015 at 10:11:18 UTC, Chris wrote:
>> Maybe he'll come up with something that is more intelligent than your average tabloid reader :)))
>
> You should file a business-patent! That would be goldmine.

Not really. A tabloid reader can be modeled like this:

immutable TabloidReader tr =
[
  hate:fear,
  fear:hate
];

immutable Opinion ifYouAskMe(gibberish statement) @safe
{
  in
  {
    assert(statement == bullsh*t);
  }
  out(result)
  {
    assert(result == AbsoluteBullsh*t);
  }
  body
  {
    return "I'm not racist, but " ~ statement;
  }
}

So you just need something that is a bit more sophisticated ;)

> Not really. A tabloid reader can be modeled like this:
>

Sounds like a plan. Going to make a website about it. Is this code patent-protected btw?

On 02.09.2015 16:41, GrandAxe wrote:
> This is to inform the D Language community that the first viable
> general artificial algorithm is being written in D. It is called
> Organic Big data intelligence (OBI); the website is at
> www.okeuvo.com.
>
> Some of its capabilities are:
>
> 1. Ability to learn
> 2. Ability to analyse
> 3. Problem solving
> 4. Moral judgement
> 5. Ability to feel emotions
> 6. Free will
> 7. Consciousness
> 8. Self awareness

Looks like the perfect controller software for my cold fusion powered housekeeper/cook android.

On Wednesday, 2 September 2015 at 14:41:20 UTC, GrandAxe wrote:
> This is to inform the D Language community that the first viable general artificial algorithm is being written in D. It is called Organic Big data intelligence (OBI); the website is at www.okeuvo.com.
>
> Some of its capabilities are:
>
> 1. Ability to learn
> 2. Ability to analyse
> 3. Problem solving
> 4. Moral judgement
> 5. Ability to feel emotions
> 6. Free will
> 7. Consciousness
> 8. Self awareness
>
> D Language was chosen for its versatility. It is a language with high level syntax and low capabilities, as well as excellent performance and being open source.
>
> Unnetworked personal mobile devices are the target platform for the standard implementation of OBI. A demonstration release is scheduled for the end of this month (September 2015). The demonstration release will comprehend English prose only, later releases will be able to process input from other languages, as well as sensory input.
> OBI will be a mixture of open and closed source modules.
>
> To God be the Glory.
>
> Asame Obiomah

It seems to me that at least 5, 6 are counter-productive, and go against the goals stated in your website. Nevermind how difficulty it would be to implement them, it seems like you haven't thought this through carefully enough.

On the other hand, I'm curious to know why you chose D to make this announcement?

On Wednesday, 2 September 2015 at 14:41:20 UTC, GrandAxe wrote:

> D Language was chosen for its versatility. It is a language with high level syntax and low capabilities....


Er, low capabilities???