Asa H

Asa informs me that indexing (which helps to organize knowledge and speed up search) is a kind of learning. This has prompted me to order a book on automatic indexing.

Chaining and creativity in Asa H

Asa H incorporates a number of learning mechanisms including "rule" chaining.  At the lower level in the memory hierarchy Asa has chained together things like :

sense dock to right --> turn right --> sense dock forward --> move forward --> dock --> recharge --> charged --> back away

(see chapter 1 of my book Twelve Papers at www.robert-w-jones.com , book)

At higher levels in the memory hierarchy Asa chains together things like:

a production system --> a universal machine --> Turing equivalent --> intelligent

This is very similar to what occurs in the "creativity machines" that I studied some years back. (see Kans. Acad. Sci. Trans., vol. 102, pg 32, 1999)  Asa's reasoning is more sophisticated, however, in that it may involve concepts of different levels of abstraction simultaneously.                                       

Search in Asa H

Search has always been an important component of AI.  When a sufficiently large spatial/temporal pattern is presented to  A.s.a.  H.  it's hierarchical memory is searched over multiple levels of abstraction.  Any retrieved matching memory will then involve concepts defined across these various levels of the hierarchy.

Is the NOT concept innate?

The NOT operation can be made innate in Asa H, i.e., 1 - dot(In,Ini).  (See my paper in Trans. Kansas Acad. Sci., vol. 109, #3/4, pg 161, 2006.) A similar thing is the inhibitory neurotransmissions found in the human brain.

Building a fifth generation computing system

A cognitive architecture that makes natural use of parallel processing (including the web/cloud?) would be an ideal fifth generation system.  A.s.a. H. (and A.v.a.) is my candidate fifth generation architecture and has run as a parallel computer.

Attention

I am experimenting with additional ways to try to restrict Asa H's focus of attention.

1. Input of natural language along with sensory stimuli.  Possibly weighting words more.
2. Of all the N inputs at time t only accept the M largest.
3. Of all the N inputs at time t use a window/spotlight to attend to only M of them.  Do not move the spotlight if similarity match or utility are high enough.

Mind as mathematician

My AI Asa H discovers, records, and manipulates spatial and temporal patterns. It uses these patterns as a language with which to describe the world.

Mathematics is a theory (or set of theories) of patterns and is used as a language (or set of languages). So one could think of a mind as a mathematician.