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Q. Who was Mentifex?

A. Mentifex was a very ordinary person with a very unusual hobby --
making artificial Minds.

Q. Why did Mentifex claim to have released the First Working Artificial General Intelligence?

A. Because the Mentifex AGI Minds started thinking primitively in 2008, they were immediately the First Working AGI but their performance was not at all impressive. Ih the following years, the AGI Minds expanded outwards from their initial core functionality. They were still based on brain-like concepts, not statistics. They still exhibited machine learning like a human child learns, and not by a mathematical massaging of enormous data-sets. They began to approach machine consciousness with self-referential thought. Using the SpreadAct module for spreading activation from concept to concept, the Minds in Perl and in JavaScript and in Forth became capable of processing more and more kinds of questions and ideas, such as "who are you" and "what do you think". Since the Perl AI could think in English or in Russian, ghost.pl became an experiment bed for new ideas in machine translation (MT).

Q. Was Mentifex on Twitter?

A. No. Somebody created a fake Mentifex Twitter account.


Q. What was Mentifex-bashing?

A. http://github.com/kernc/mindforth/blob/master/wiki/MentifexBashing.wiki


Q. Why are some Netizens obsessed with Mentifex?

A. As What's-His-Name said, "The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation" -- until they discover the Teilhard-de-Chardin-esque phenomenon of Mentifex. Suddenly it appears possible to live vicariously not like Walter Mitty, but like the distilled essence of dweebian nerdism taken to its ultimate extreme, to a kind of snap-to-grid of what happens when you defy conventionality and you super-nova into a Nietzschean Abgeloestsein von allen Banden der Liebe und Moral and you Beethovenize your otherwise and outwardly drab life with what would be magic in the fetters of embourgeoisement. The Obsessed Ones write often of their e.g. obsession:
... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13783857 -- can't summon banned Mentifex
... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14866449 -- about Mentifex
... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15029417 -- about strange Mentifex

2. Bibliography: What books has Mentifex written about AI?

Inexpensive, easy-to-read paperback and Amazon Kindle e-books were
a way to spread the memes of free, open-source Mentifex Strong AI.

AI4U was about the Mentifex AI state of the art in 2002.
ai4ubook.html provides material beyond the 2002 AI4U textbook.

The Art of the meme told the history of the Mentifex AI project.

Singularity (in the Psyborg series) was AI science fiction.

InFerence was about automated reasoning with inference.

Artificial Intelligence in German is about Wotan German AI.


3. Psychography: What minds has Mentifex created for Strong AI?

http://ai.neocities.org/mindforth.txt -- MindForth in English

http://www.nlg-wiki.org/systems/Wotan -- in German

http://ai.neocities.org/FirstWorkingAGI.html -- in English

http://ai.neocities.org/Dushka.html -- in Russian

http://ai.neocities.org/perlmind.txt -- ghost.pl in Perl