The great equalizer raging through society now in the form of a catastrophic pandemic makes all the social classes equal in the necessity to "shelter in place" and not go out as carriers of the virus or among carriers of the virus.
One month ago today your AGI fellow Mentifex was still enjoying life in the main campus library of his University of Washington alma mater when the president of aforesaid university announced that in-person classes would be suspended on Monday 2020-03-09 for the remainder of the winter quarter. In a ripple effect, colleges and universities across America followed suit. Now millions of students are stuck at home, trying to attend classes on-line and longing for the free and easy college days of going to class and of socializing and of enjoying the best years of their lives.
Many professors were not ready to switch from in-person to on-line classes. Everything is now makeshift and play-by-ear. We AGI-ers have the golden opportunity to step forward up to the plate and to offer our humble suggestions for building Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) as a possibly interesting topic for on-line college instruction.
We must let our on-line captive student body know that we have taken various AGI shortcuts in our headlong rush to get AGI going as a viable phenomenon in the world of software development.
One AGI shortcut is to do with serial-instruction software what the human brain accomplishes with a massively parallel (MasPar) architecture.
Another AGI shortcut is to use single instances of concepts where a human brain would use MasPar instances of concepts. Assuming that software is reliable, our AGI Minds such as
http://ai.neocities.org/Ghost.html in English and
http://ai.neocities.org/Dushka.html in Russian and
http://ai.neocities.org/Abracadabra.html in Latin should function well enough for on-line instructional purposes as our students Zoom in on future AGI developments.
What an opportunity we and they now have for the massive development of massively pervasive AGI teaching materials. The coronavirus is opening up vast pathways of career advancement and materials authorship for creative geniuses who would otherwise have been wasting their youth in the pursuit of Dobie Gillis pleasures and Maynard Krebs distractions.
http://www.chatbots.org/ai_zone/viewthread/3750 -- AiMind discussion.