AI WINTER IS OFFICIALLY OVER

Move the fuck over Mentifex, AI hobbyist are raising money to attempt the most ambitious project ever create, the simulation of an entire worm.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/openworm/openworm-a-digital-organism-in-your-browser?ref=category
This project is simulating an entire 302 neurons and for only $249 you -- yes YOU -- can have your name assigned to one!

Don't think this is some fly-by-night bullshit scam aiming to make $120,000 and get out quick either, there are a full nine people on this project ready to make it a success. No niggers on it though.

And as a statement to the sheer complexity of this feat,

building a WormSim from source is a complex operation that requires advanced engineering skills

That's right, [u][b]advanced engineering skills[/b][/u] just to [i]run `./configure && make && make install' That must be one fucking monster of a project. Luck for you retards

The WormSims created and brought to you by this campaign will run on a rather advanced cloud infrastructure and will be easily available in your browser without requiring any programming skills.

How magnanimous.

But is it really intelligent? YES[i]![/i]

The C. elegans worm can avoid predators, seek food, and learn in the wild and in the lab! So yes, it’s no Lieutenant Commander Data yet, but we must crawl before we can walk... and it’s orders of magnitude more intelligent than your robot vacuum cleaner ;)

Beam me the fuck up, Scotty, cuz' this worm is about to assfuck the entire Earth. Singularity, here we cum!

[b][b]code FAIL!

>>2
Tablecat's fault.

They wont beat Linda Liuka's $380000/month

Linda gives scamming master classes:
http://lindaliukas.tumblr.com/post/77372344314/my-childrens-book-on-technology-raised-100k-within-24
Not all projects are ideal for a crowdfunding campaign. Running a successful campaign is partly luck, but mostly it’s just hard work and dedication.

Offering something that is finite and concrete helps to convince your backers that the project will happen. Offering something that taps into a bigger theme enables your backers to dream with you. Telling the story around these two is the trick.

Kickstarter works best when you understand either the existing or potential community around your project. Kickstarter is the last step, not the first.

For me, the community for Hello Ruby was Rails Girls. I co-founded Rails Girls, the grassroots movement to encourage young women to get excited about coding, without the faintest idea about the role it would end up playing.

Three years, 160 cities and innumerable discussions later I have a pretty good understanding of what type of people get excited about Hello Ruby. I spoke to everyone about her adventures, gave talks and published drawings. I started a blogwhere I documented how I was learning drawing. I forced myself to practice daily by making a public Christmas calendar. I started an e-mail list for people who wanted to be notified about the progress with the book.

Practical steps:
- Start a blog where you share progress on your project. This will hold you accountable and let people know what you’re working on.
- Talk about your project. Whether it’s a conference, meetup or just a friends gathering, forcing yourself to write down your project and talk about it in public
- Start an e-mailing list. You don’t need to use it prior to the Kickstarter, but gathering email addresses from interested people is very valuable once your campaign starts.

How is this not satire

The perfect companion to my OpenAnus simulator!

$120,000 goal

talk about crazy.

Rails Girls

heh

>>5

Liukas

Is she Lithuanian or something? Why isn't she doing porn or something like that instead?

>>7
I'll pledge to your anus!

>>5
After reading that blog post watching that video was sort of off-putting. I really didn't expect her to be doing the CUTE AND QUIRKY WATCH ME DO STUPID FACES thing. I guess that's what the kickstarter audicence is into though, so good on her... Ruby is shit

>>11

"Build a persona of your demographic backer - this helps you keep focused and make sure you’re not telling the story you would back, but the story your target backer wants to back."

Worms in my anus.

"Open"World

pay to click on it

back to watching star trek you go

>>13
Would it be cruel to create a sentient AI only to give it the body of a virtual worm living in a virtual anus?

http://www.scn.org/~mentifex/AiMind.html has more global variables, that I've ever seen! It can be used to teach how not to write software.


var abc = ""; // AudBuffer() transfer character; 4jan2012
var abort = false;
var act = 0;
var actbase = 0;
var actran = 0; // psi-decay holder of also-ran act-levels; 14may2011
var anset = 0; // Set "an" before a vowel at start of noun.
var apb = "";
var artnum = 0; // article num(ber) as parameter for EnArticle; 6nov2011
var associand = "";
var aud = 0; // 5apr2010
var aud0 = "";
var audbase = 0; // from RuAi; recall-vector for VerbGen(); 17oct2012
var auddata = ("<b>" + "Auditory memory nodes" + "<\/b>" + "<BR>");
auddata += ("krt pho act pov beg ctu audpsi"); // 8dec2009
var audjuste = 0;
// var audme = 0;
var audnum = 0; // de-globalizing the "num" variable; 4nov2012
var audpsi = 0; // 6dec2009 de-globalizing the "psi" variable
var audrec = 0; // 8dec2009 Replaces "psi" in AudRecog module.
var audrun = 0; // Counter of loops through AudRecog(); 7jul2010
var audstop = 0; // Flag to stop SpeechAct after one word; 7jul2010
var auxverb = 0; // such as 800=BE; 830=DO; or modal verb; 31mar2013
var b01 = ""; // for OutBuffer(); 4jan2012
var b02 = ""; // for OutBuffer(); 4jan2012
var b03 = ""; // for OutBuffer(); 4jan2012
var b04 = ""; // for OutBuffer(); 4jan2012
var b05 = ""; // for OutBuffer(); 4jan2012
var b06 = ""; // for OutBuffer(); 4jan2012
var b07 = ""; // for OutBuffer(); 4jan2012
var b08 = ""; // for OutBuffer(); 4jan2012
var b09 = ""; // for OutBuffer(); 4jan2012
var b10 = ""; // for OutBuffer(); 4jan2012
var b11 = ""; // for OutBuffer(); 4jan2012
var b12 = ""; // for OutBuffer(); 4jan2012
var b13 = ""; // for OutBuffer(); 4jan2012
var b14 = ""; // for OutBuffer(); 4jan2012
var b15 = ""; // for OutBuffer(); 4jan2012
var b16 = ""; // for OutBuffer(); 26mar2013
var beact = 0; // for discrimination during BeVerb; 13aug2010
var becon = 0; // detect be-verb for InFerence; 18mar2013
var beg = 0;
var bias = 5;
var binc = 0; // "b" increment for AudBuffer; 18oct2012
var brain = true;
var brevity = 0;
var btw = "Rejuvenating...";
var c = "";
var c01 = ""; // for AudBuffer(); 4jan2012
var c02 = ""; // for AudBuffer(); 4jan2012
var c03 = ""; // for AudBuffer(); 4jan2012
var c04 = ""; // for AudBuffer(); 4jan2012
var c05 = ""; // for AudBuffer(); 4jan2012
var c06 = ""; // for AudBuffer(); 4jan2012
var c07 = ""; // for AudBuffer(); 4jan2012
var c08 = ""; // for AudBuffer(); 4jan2012
var c09 = ""; // for AudBuffer(); 4jan2012
var c10 = ""; // for AudBuffer(); 4jan2012
var c11 = ""; // for AudBuffer(); 4jan2012
var c12 = ""; // for AudBuffer(); 4jan2012
var c13 = ""; // for AudBuffer(); 4jan2012
var c14 = ""; // for AudBuffer(); 4jan2012
var c15 = ""; // for AudBuffer(); 4jan2012
var c16 = ""; // for AudBuffer(); 4jan2012
var caller = "none";
var casus = "0";
var city = 0;
var cns = 1024; // accommodate enlarged EnBoot; 26oct2012
var coda = 128;
var cognum = 0; // grammatical number of cogpsi; 27oct2011
var cogpsi = 0; // new noun being learned; 18oct2011
var cogpsinum = 0; // non-volatile for WhatBe; 18oct2011
var conj = 0;
var ctu = 1;
var cyct = 0;
var danger = true;
var dba = 0; // case for nouns; person for verbs; 4jan2012
var defact = 0; // default activation for NounPhrase; 25oct2011
var defartcon = 0; // definite article condition; 19apr2011
var defcon = 0; // for KbTraversal to override NounAct; 17nov2010
var detour = 0;
var dialog = "";
var dirobj = 0;
var dob = new Date();
var dobmfn = 0; // for InFerence to pass gender to AskUser; 20mar2013
var dobseq = 0; // for transfer within InFerence; 18mar2013
var edge = 0;
var endata = ("<b>" + "English lexical fibers" + "<\/b>" + "<BR>");
endata += ("krt nen act num mfn dba fex pos fin aud"); // 4jan2012
var engram = "";
var enx = 0;
var en0 = 0; // "nen" for "n(umber)" in "En(glish)"; 4apr2010
var en1 = 0; // "act(ivation)" level; 4apr2010
var en2 = 0; // "num(ber)" since 12apr09B.html; 4apr2010
var en3 = 0; // "mfn" being introduced as gender flag; 4apr2010
var en4 = 0; // "dba" being intorduced as case or person; 4jan2012
var en5 = 0; // "fex" fiber-out from Psi array; 4apr2010; 4jan2012
var en6 = 0; // "pos" part-of-speech flag; 4apr2010; 4jan2012
var en7 = 0; // "fin" fiber-in to Psi array; 4apr2010; 4jan2012
var en8 = 0; // "aud" recall-vector onset-tag; 4apr2010; 4jan2012
var eot = 0;
var equity = 0;
var fex = 0;
var fin = 0;
var firstword = 0; // for identifying input of a query; 22aug2011
var flex1 = ""; // first inflection phoneme; 14sep2011
var flex2 = ""; // second inflection phoneme; 14sep2011
var flex3 = ""; // third inflection phoneme; 14sep2011
var freedom = true;
var fyi = 0;
var gencon = 0; // status-con flag when calling VerbGen; 17oct2012
var ghost = 0;
var glot = 1; // flag for which language to think in; 9jul2011
// var greet = 10; // greeting-trigger; 17nov2010
var greet = 5; // for speedier testing; 29oct2011
var hardcopy = false;
var holdaud = 0;
var holdnum = 0; // transfer from subject to verb; 4nov2012
var html = "";
var i = 0;
var img = "xoxoxoxox";
var inbuffer = "";
var indefartcon = 0; // indefinite article condition; 19apr2011
var indefmust = 0; // force saying of "A" or "AN"; 23oct2011
// var inert = 1; // Until user presses a key; 20jul2011
var inert = 0; // for quick asking of a cogpsi question; 23oct2011
var inft = 0; // inference-time for AskUser; 18mar2013
var inhibcon = 0; // flag for inhibition in InStantiate; 27oct2011
var instnum = 0; // instantiation number for immediate or delayed use )
var j = 0;
var jrt = 0;
var jux = 0;
var kbcon = 0; // flag for awaiting a yes-or-no answer; 29jun2011
var kbtv = 0; // for use in KbTraversal; 13aug2010
var kbyn = 0; // holds kbtv values for asking Y/N 30jun2011
var krt = 0;
var lastpho = 0; // to avoid extra "S" on verbs; 2sep2010
var lastword = false;
var len = 0;
var lexact = 0;
var life = true;
var lurk = 0; // counter to activate initial thinking; 29sep2010
var maxbeact = 0; // to prevent BeVerb from calling AskUser; 16sep2010
var mfn = 0; // 2apr2010 for En(glish) gender flag.
var mfnflag = 0; // gender flag to cause a who-query; 3aug2011
var midway = 0; // 22aug2011
var monopsi = 0;
var moot = 0; // flag to prevent associations in DO-queries; 22aug2011
var morphpsi = 0;
var motjuste = "";
var muse = 1;
var nacpsi = 0; // de-globalized psi for NounAct; 13aug2010
var negjux = 0; // flag for 250=NOT juxtaposed to a verb; 21mar2013
var nen = 0;
var newpsi = 0; // for singular-nounstem assignments; 18mar2013
var nlt = 5;
var node = 0;
var nonce = 630; // = vault; for quick loading; 3apr2013
var nounaud = 0;
var nouncall = 0; // Try not to show articles as subjects; 21may2011
var nounduck = 0; // Disregard prepositional-phrase nouns as subjects.
var nounlock = 0; // for a verb to lock onto a seq-noun; 13oct2011
var nounval = 0;
var nphrnum = 0;
var nphrpos = 0; // for testing in EnCog; 13aug2010
var num = 0;
var numcon = ""; // number status flag to call RetroSet; 23mar2013
var numflag = 0; // for EnArticle() 1oct2010
var numsubj = 0; // for number of subject; 14jun2011
var objold = 0; // a test for optimizing slosh-over; 18oct2010
var obstat = 0;
var oldact = 0;
var oldpos = 0;
var oldpsi = 0;
var onset = 0;
var ordo = 0;
var origin = "";
var output = "";
var pho = "";
var phodex = 0; // pho-index for AudBuffer(); 4jan2012
var pos = 0;
var posflag = 0; // AskUser discriminand; 13aug2010
var pov = "#"; // point-of-view: #35 internal; *42 external
var prc = 0; // possible shortener for "provrec"; 18oct2012
var pre = 0;
var precand = 0;
var predflag = 0; // indicates predicate nominative; 16sep2010
var prednom = 0; // predicate nominative for InFerence; 18mar2013
var prejux = 0; // previous jux to carry NOT to verb; 24jul2011
var prepsi = 0; // for deglobalizing "pre" in SpreadAct(); 16sep2010
var preset = 0;
var presubj = 0;
var preverb = 0;
var preview = "";
var prevtag = 0;
var prox1 = 0; // first proximate concept of input cluster; 14sep2011
var prox2 = 0; // for determining association among engrams; 14sep2011
var prox3 = 0; // for disparate reactivation in ReActivate; 14sep2011
var proxcon = 0; // flag to indicate usage of prox variables; 14sep2011
var prsn = 0; // 1st, 2nd, 3rd person; 2sep2010
var psi = 0;
var psi0 = 0;
var psi1 = 0;
var psi8 = 0; // test; 13oct2011
var psibase = 0;
var psidata = ("<b>" + "Psi mindcore concepts" + "<\/b>" + "<BR>");
psidata += ("krt psi act num jux pre pos tqv seq enx"); // 13oct2011
var putnum = 0; // putative num(ber) for subj-verb agreement; 24oct2011
var questype = 0;
var quiet = true;
var quobj = 0; // query-object for yes-or-no questions; 22jun2011
var qus = 0; // provisional query-subject in advance of queries
var qusnum = 0; // query-subject-number for AskUser; 28mar2013
var qusub = 0; // query subject in more readable code; 2oct2010
var qusubnum = 0; // num(ber) of query-subject; 27oct2011
var quverb = 0; // query-verb for yes-or-no questions; 22jun2011
var recnum = 0; // recognized number of a recognized word 20jul2011
var recon = 0;
var residuum = 0;
var rjc = 0;
var rsvp = 1000;
var seq = 0;
var seq5aud = 0; // being replaced by "seq7aud"; 13oct2011
var seq7aud = 0; // auditory engram for psi7 "seq"; 13oct2011
var seq7enx = 0; // SpreadAct(): for enLexicon search; 13oct2011
var seqdob = 0; // for direct object transfer within InFerence()
var seqenx = 0; // for enx transfer within InFerence() 18mar2013
var seqneed = 0; // noun/pronoun or verb needed as a "seq"; 4oct2011
var seqpos = 0; // "seq" concept part-of-sppeech; 4oct2011
var seqpsi = 0; // for deglobalizing "seq" in SpreadAct(); 16sep2010
var seqtqv = 0; // for transfer during InFerence; 18mar2013
var seqverb = 0; // interstitial carrier for InFerence; 18mar2013
var singflag = 0; // singularity flag for singular nouns; 4nov2011
var skip = 0;
var sloshmark = "+"; // more like MindForth; 30may2011
var snu = 0; // subject-number verb-selection parameter; 18oct2012
var spike = 0;
var spt = 0;
var star = 0; // For tutorial slosh-over showSubject() display.
var stemgap = 0;
var subjcall = 0; // To avoid showSubject() of articles; 21may2011
var subjectflag = 0; // 9dec2009 For NounPhrase to call SelfRef.
var subjnom = 0; // subject-nominative for InFerence; 18mar2013
var subjnum = 0; // for agreement with predicate nominative; 18may2011
var subjold = 0; // old subject as default candidate 29sep2010
var subjprsn = 0; // possible holder of "dba" for input verbs; 31oct2012
var subjpsi = 0;
var sublen = 0;
var subpsi = 0;
var svo3 = 0; // for VisRecog; 25sep2011
var svo5aud = 0;
var svoyes = false;
var t = 0;
var tag0 = 0;
var tag1 = 0;
var tag2 = 0;
var tag3 = 0;
var tag4 = 0;
var tag5 = 0;
var tag6 = 0;
var tag7 = 0;
var tag8 = 0; // For safekeeping values in SpreadAct(); 13oct2011
var tbev = 0; // time of be-verb for use with notjux; 15aug2011
var the1 = 0;
var the2 = 0;
var the3 = 0;
var the4 = 0;
var the5 = 0;
var the6 = 0;
var the7 = 0;
var tkbn = 0; // time of retroactive KB noun adjustment; 28jun2011
var tkbv = 0; // time of retroactive KB verb adjustment; 28jun2011
var tobject = "";
var topic = "";
var topicnum = 0; // grammatical number of question "topic"; 18oct2011
var tov = 1;
var tqv = 0; // tempus quod vide for specific psi instance; 4oct2011
var trouble = false;
var tseln = 0; // NounPhrase: time of selection of noun; 10may2011
var tsels = 0; // 25oct2011
var tselv = 0; // VerbPhrase: time of selection of Verb; 10may2011
var tsubject = ""; // showSubject(): For "tutorial subjects".
var tult = 0;
var tutor = false;
var tverb = "";
var ufo = 0;
var unk = "";
var upnext = 0;
var urpre = 0; // original pre for swapping during function-calls.
var urpsi = 0;
var userline = "";
var vacpsi = 0; // de-globalized psi for VerbAct(); 1oct2010
var vault = 663; // size of EnBoot; 18mar2013
var verblock = 0; // for subject-noun to lock onto seq-verb; 13oct2011
var verbnum = 0;
var verbpsi = 0; // for transit into WhatAuxSVerb() 14jun2011
var verbval = 0;
var verbcall = 0;
var vip = 0; // special ID for verb created by VerbGen; 17oct2012
var vphract = 0; // verb phrase activation level 22jun2011
var vphraud = 0; // holds aud-fetch for SpeechAct; 28jun2011
var vrsn = "14apr13A"; // for Transcript mode; sun14apr2013
var vpos = 0;
var wxdflag = 0; // for inhibition of what-do-X-DO queries; 16sep2010
var wxvflag = 0; // for inhibition of what-do-X-VERB queries; 16sep2010
var xthe = 0;
var yncon = 0; // a statuscon to trigger yes-or-no query; 27jun2011
var ynverb = 0; // yes-or-no verb for AskUser; 29jun2011
var zone = 0;



>>15
I've never been one to circlejerk over the ethics of AI prematurely, as that is nonsense for the mindless anti-science humanities types to argue over. It is best just to ignore them until the reality of the situation can be established.

Therefore, I propose that wait until we have sentient AI to answer this question. To do so, we give one the body of a worm, and insert it into AnusWorld (think a Lovecraftian plane consisting of horrible multidimensional orifices of abominations so foul that they defy description). We should run the simulation for a few thousand years of simulated time, then ask the AI to describe it's experiences. If it seems to enjoy it, then we know that it is not cruel, if it did not like the experience, then we know that it is cruel and know better next time.

This should also be performed experimentally. It should be relatively simple to have a large sample size, and if each AI can be copied, then even better, it will make for the perfect control and experimental groups. There can be one million that experience a thousand years of nothing, a million that have to sing to and play harp for the Robot God for a thousand years, while the final million get AnusWorld.

This would be a great project for us in the future when there is no more scarcity and there are robots that do everything except chew our food for us.

>>17
Science is overrated and ``sentient AI'' is equivalent to gnomes and unicorns.

Science is trifles of factual trivia pertaining to lowly physical phenomena. It is not a bastion of reasoning like the Humanities is. Mathematics is not a science and it is superior to science. It has more in common with Humanities and Truth than lowly facts about worm species. Computer ``science'' is more Mathematics than science. The Human Intellect asserts itself as the superior of nature and its Master. Science tries to do the opposite by ways of its furry hippie shit and even tries to come up with creating things (such as ``sentient ai'') that are superior to the Human. The reason ``nerds'' (inferiors) were ostracised in early (better) days was because of Humanity's intuitive sense of their objective inferiority. Though scientists like to point to non-existent things such as ``evolutionary desires'' for this ostracization (though they admit themselves to be the ``genetic'' inferiors) but it has in fact only to do with the Chosen and unchosen.

>>18
I acknowledge that you replied to me.

wow so wise xD http://lindaliukas.tumblr.com/

>>20

No pictures of butthole or pantyhosed feet, what a waste of tiime

>>21

or pantyhosed feet

U MENA BAREFOOT

>>21-22
How can you sexualize Liukas? No, seriously, doesn't the fact that they're a Ruby retard turn you off?

>>5
Do you prefer Dan "pay for loli" booru?

>>24
how the fuck did this end up in this thread

>>23
It does

>>20-
is linda liukas the new epic /prog/ meme?

>>22

U MENA PANTYHOSE, U TURD

>>23
I can ignore that.

But Ruby not bad language??

asdfafds

>>23
This is the natural evolution of the internet, bringing together a Triforce of Babes, Code and a healthy dose of Memes.

IIIITTT'S READY!
http://browser.openworm.org/
One year and one hundred twenty thousand dollars later and you can now rotate a 3D model of a worm in your browser! Welcome to the future, faggots.

>>4
At least you were getting a physical, bona fide book with pretty drawings on it.

>>32
Wait, is that really it? Isn't it supposed to move or something? Oh boy.

>>32
Is that really it? I didn't even waste money on this and I'm annoyed. They could have at least animated it and made a perceptron or something.

>>23
"She works in tech industry."

>>34
>>35
suckers

Of all the words and organisms they could've chosen, they decided on the one that's associated with malware? FAIL.

>>5

the grassroots movement to encourage young women to get excited about codingbeing mindless codemonkeys lost in layers of enterprise abstraction bullshite and enamoured by their shiny locked-down consumerist consumption devices

FTFY

My daughter can read enough Asm to do some cracking and basic RE. That's what should really be happening, teaching users how to get full control over the computers they use, giving them true power and freedom, but instead all this "learn to code" shit gets focused on ultra-high-level crap fad languages and everyone still doesn't know how a CPU really works, so they remain easy to brainwash and persuade. It's just an illusion of control to keep them happy and ignorant.

Although I watched the video and I'll give her some credit for not prominently showing off "coding" on an iDevice like I thought she would...

>>38
Already got rid of your Intel Management Engine, freedom fighter? Or do you not know how your computer works and who really controls it?

>>38
What's your sex life like?