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From: UMLANGSTON@MSUVX1.MEMST.EDU
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Subject: Various stuff...
Well all,
I'm back from Germany and working away on some programs. I had a few
things to say/ask:
a) WHERE IS EVERYONE? You're studying too hard! Take a break!
b) Norm: You keeping an ftp'able archive of the list? If so, where?
c) While I was working in Germany, we all had a discussion about
who was working on what. How's it going with everyone's
projects?
d) I'll assume almost everyone is using EPP (thanks, Barry!). That
being true, wouldn't it be a good idea to have a central FTP
site for everyone's PMODULES so we could all benefit from each
other's routines? (Think about it: A set of libraries for
fancy 3d graphics routines, a set for sound, a set for device
access, text manipulation, windowing/boopsi/intuition, etc.)
e) In fact, we should establish a central FTP site for source. I only
say this because I have no idea how hard it would be to get an E
directory under aminet/dev/source.
Where I am: Well, I'm currently working on SDM. Now up to 0.3a.
SDM stands for Sparse Distributed Memory. basically a holographic
storage system. The version I'm working on now will learn to read
text...anything. Books, newspapers, term papers, you name it. I
have most of the routines either coded or planned, at least as far
as having it correctly recognize concepts, categories, and predict
word sequences (I'm using pop science texts, but will move on to fiction
soon).
Once I have thatt done, I'll implement the other half of SDM, which
will add content-addressible associative memory to it. In other words,
give it a word or phrase, and it can free-associate in a human manner.
After that's working, I may just make it talk just to round things out.
Throw in a few emotions, and you may have an Amiga striking up a conver-
sation with you in the future (but, that would require voice-recognition,
and I havent looked at the soource for VCLI all that closely.) Either
way, you amy could have feelings, and express them to you in natual
language (at least, that's whatt I'm hoping. all this is based on a
theory of SDM developed by Pennti Kanerva, and was designed as a memory
system for a fully autonomous rrobot...it was never designed with text
in mind, although it works just fine with it. (remind me to slow down
my key repeat rate.))
So. That's where my projects are so far. All the others I listed (except
the TIERRA port) will be using SDM as the foundation for their functioning.
I get this thing working, everything else is pretty much downhill.
What progress has everyone else made?
-mark
P.S. - No, I'm NOT kidding. It works (at least what I've already implemented).
I do this sort of thing on a regular basis (it's my field of study).
Institute for Intelligent Systems
Department of Psychology
Memphis State University
Memphis, TN 38152
langston@memstvx1.memst.edu
PsychoNaut Labs (software division)