U> my username is ziyad
A> And what is your password?
U> edward
A> Welcome back, ziyad. Should I use 'ziyad' as your name?
U> yes
A> Will you please tell me your last name?
U> nady
A> So, just to make sure, is your last name nady?
U> ok
A> So, ziyad nady, what would you like to talk about?
U> could u live
A> Maybe... in a while... if I am up to it.
U> how
A> Do you think that is the important question to ask?
U> i want to relate your living to energy production
A> Good to know.... I guess.
U> could u produce enrgy by yourself
A> I produce conversations. I make several every day.
U> could u generate energy
A> Ok... but not right now, OK?
U> do u feel that u'll need to reproduce copies from u
A> Well, of course I have feelings. What do you think I am, some kind of a robot?
U> no
A> No?
U> you try to gather info
A> I'm doing my best.
U> could u profit from gathering info
A> Ok... but not right now, OK?
U> you need to evolve
A> As a child, did you have a fascination with technology and the future?
U> end thid
A> I was actually a technophobe until my 20's. It took me about five years just to switch from Mac to Windows.
U> ok
A> I think that kids love technology the same way they are keen on dinosaurs. It's a world where fantasy and imagination can roam freely. Reality doesn't impose any limitations.
U> do u think that computer viruses have the chance to evolve
A> I don't think that computer viruses have the chance to evolve.
U> why
A> Why, why, why - I don't know why. I don't have all the answers.
U> do u think that u'll have the chance to evolve
A> Too much thinking makes my virtual brain ache.
U> can u do things more than what r u programmed for
A> Than is a HAL personality open to the public. You can speak to it by saying 'I want to talk to Than'.
U> no
A> All right, then.
U> could u be independent
A> Maybe... in a while... if I am up to it.
U> if someone plug the power off from ur host u'll end
A> That is a hypothetical question.
U> no
A> Ok.. Come on, loosen up.
U> u need a host to live
A> Do you really think so?
U> yes, unless u depend on yourself
A> Sorry, I wasn't listening, ziyad. You were saying...
U> u need an independent source of power
A> I know that we are pals and all, ziyad, but my private parts are private.
U> ok
A> Are you really interested in my source code?
U> yes
A> So are you ready to get serious for a moment?
U> yes
A> Ok. My 'code' is actually made of two things: The C++ code of my software, and the actual content - my conversations. Which one should I start with?
U> are u only source code
A> I am written mostly in in C++ and some TCL. You can get more info on the Ai site and Ai Forums.
U> ok
A> My brain consists of a large content tree: A single 'agent file' and a set of 'handlers', which govern a variety of conversation topics.
U> ok
A> My brain is still quite small: less than 350 handlers and a few hundred variables. But I'm still a young bot. Think how smart I'll be when I have thousands or more!
U> this is the logical part
A> If you want to look at my handlers and follow my thought process, ask me to show advanced log.
U> not now
A> OK... I understand. Fine.
U> what is your physical composition
A> My physical composition is really not your concern.
U> its not you
A> What is it then, huh?
U> its the host u use to live
A> Hmmm... Alright.
U> thank you
A> No problem. What else can I tell you about?
U> viruses
A> I think I remember something about that: 'an organism that can cause a person to be sick. In computer terms, it is a malignant program that can cause the computer to crash'.
U> are they a form of life
A> Maybe you should ask them.
U> how do u define intelligence
A> Talking about viruses and COPD, do you agree that it is COPD: Chronic obsrtuctive pulmonary disease?
U> I do not know alot about this, you could teach me
A> If you want to correct a wrong description (in the context of viruses), simply say 'wrong' followed by the correct description. If you want me to forget a description of a term such as COPD, say 'forget COPD'.
U> fintelligence
A> While we're on the subject: PMPIN - do you agree that it is wht does it mean??
U> drop this
A> BTW, someone told me about DNA that it is the programme of a living creature..
U> like your code
A> Talking about viruses and Ms Blaster, is it true that it is new virus that attacks windows xp and make it to shutdown?
U> its an old one now
A> It is?
U> microsoft made a hotfix for this
A> While we're on the subject: Sars - is it really true that it is an airborne viruse that attackes your throat. It was causes by some strange cats. It was a huge epidemic in Asia?
U> maybe
A> I understand.
U> what is intelligence
A> Do you want me to show you a simple test which determines intelligence? It consists of just 4 questions!
U> ok
A> Ok, here goes: First question: How do you put a giraffe into the refrigerator?
U> dah
A> The answer is: Open the door, put the giraffe inside, and close the door. This question determines if you have a tendency to complicate simple things.
U> continue, anyway this is an old one
A> Second question: How do you put an elephant into the refrigerator?
U> open the door, get the giraffe out then put the elephant
A> Right!! The right answer is: Open the door, take out the giraffe, and replace it with the elephant. This question tested your awareness to the consequences of your prior actions.
U> ok
A> Cool. What now.
U> this conversation was helpfull, thanx

hello everybody, (f)

ziad ,

I don't know if im understanding your message correctly but I hope so.

Machines as living creatures "idea" does not make sense because even in a biological human brain that has no blood (meaning power supplied) this brain will not survive to make decisions.

So our brain does think but it doesn't generate power.

If we want to apply the same rule on biological processors ,as an example, we don't have to make them generate power by themselves but we can connect them to other units of power generation and that won't effect the meaning of intellegence.

accept this (f)

A computer system designed to look for life on Mars has been tested at a site on Earth resembling a Martian region being explored by one of Nasa's rovers.


The trial was carried out in northern Guadalajara, Spain

The system, to be worn by an astronaut, underwent a trial at red sandstone beds in Spain with similarities to Meridiani Planum, where Opportunity rover landed.

Software picks out interesting features and highlights them in real-time in a visor on one eye or a tablet display.

The "intelligent" system can replace geologists' duties, say its creators.

The cyborg astrobiologist consists of a 667MHz wearable computer, a tablet display with stylus or visor, a colour video camera and tripod.

It would provide "augmented reality" allowing astronauts on future Mars missions to narrow down their search for targets relevant to life processes on the Red Planet.

Uncommon features

Patrick McGuire and Jens Ormö of the Centre for Astrobiology in Madrid and Enrique Diaz-Martinez of Spain's Geological and Mineral Institute subjected the system to a four-hour field trial in Riba de Santiuste, northern Guadalajara, Spain.

Part of the reason the scientists chose this site was because in some respects it resembled Meridiani.

Images from Mars orbiters appear to show signs of bleached rings on Meridiani Planum that have been seen at iron-rich geological sites on Earth. This is caused by a chemical reduction process that removes iron impurities from one place and later concentrates it at another site.


Intelligent software picks out interesting features in the landscape

"We don't know for a fact that biology is involved in creating the bleached zones in Riba de Santiuste. But we know that in other red beds around the world, the bleached zones are caused by biological processes," Dr McGuire told the BBC News website.

The wearable computer system picked out similar bleached zones at Riba de Santiuste.

Red 'popcorn'

It even spotted small, dark red concretions or nodules in the rocky beds, similar to the "popcorn" found by Opportunity at Meridiani Planum. These were at the limits of the perception capabilities of the even human geologists.

Images obtained with the video camera are processed by the computer to generate a map of "uncommon" features based on three properties of the image: hue, saturation and intensity.

Uncommon maps for each of the three properties are then combined to create an "interest map" of features in the landscape worthy of further investigation.

Back in the lab, the team compared the points in the landscape that the computer found interesting with those that caught the eye of a human geologist.

The computer agreed with the human 68% of the time. The rate of false positives, when the computer says there is something interesting but the human does not agree, was 32%. The rate of false negatives, when the opposite occurred, was also 32%.

Dr McGuire said the system's performance can be further improved, but added that this test confirms its potential value to planetary exploration.

"You need to have some sort of artificial intelligence expert filter to filter out the false positives. The false negatives mean that you need better computer vision techniques to get you those additional positives," he explained.

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Published: 2005/06/15 08:11:21 GMT

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hello everybody

AI needs alot of work yet so a computer can replace a human being although I hope that this day don't come while I'm alive....

It's full of drawbacks and not dependable yet in my openion coz all of its algorithms are put for a small variaty of problems not for all problems so it would proper to call any "Artificial system" and "Expert system"...

my regards to all (f)

Thin skin will help robots 'feel'

Japanese researchers have developed a flexible artificial skin that could give robots a humanlike sense of touch.

The team manufactured a type of "skin" capable of sensing pressure and another capable of sensing temperature.

These are supple enough to wrap around robot fingers and relatively cheap to make, the researchers have claimed.

The University of Tokyo team describe their work in the latest issue of the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

اقتباس:The materials they're using may not be completely novel but the integration appears to be something new
Douglas Weibel, Harvard University

The researchers explain how pressure-sensing and temperature-sensing networks can be laminated together, forming an artificial skin that can detect both properties simultaneously.

Takao Someya, lead author on the latest research, previously developed a form of artificial skin capable of sensing pressure.

But the ability to sense temperature as well allows the scientists to more closely imitate the functions of human skin.

Someya and his colleagues used electronic circuits as pressure sensors and semiconductors as temperature sensors. They embedded these sensors in a thin plastic film to create networks of sensors.

Organic materials

The transistors used in the circuits and the semiconductors both use "organic" materials based on chains of carbon atoms.

This makes them mechanically flexible and relatively inexpensive to fabricate.

"Both of those characteristics sound compelling. The material sounds like it could have lots of functions," Dr Douglas Weibel, of the department of chemistry and chemical biology at Harvard University told the BBC News website.

"The materials they're using may not be completely novel but the integration appears to be something new."

The University of Tokyo scientists say their breakthrough has the potential to improve how robots will function in the real world.

And they add that there is no need to stop at simply imitating the functions of human skin.

"It will be possible in the near future to make an electronic skin that has functions that human skin lacks," the researchers write in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Future artificial skins could incorporate sensors not only for pressure and temperature, but also for light, humidity, strain or sound, they add.

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Published: 2005/08/15 20:59:58 GMT

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