On Saturday, January 28, 2023 at 9:41:22 PM UTC-8, A.T. Murray wrote:
> On Saturday, January 28, 2023 at 9:00:11 PM UTC-8, Ahem A Rivet's Shot wrote:
> > On Sat, 28 Jan 2023 21:15:27 +0000
> > "Kerr-Mudd, John" <ad...@127.0.0.1> wrote:
> >
> > > Nah, he's just a bit desperate for someone to tell him that his life's
> > > work has some merit.
> > It is sad that it does not.
> >
> > --
> > Steve O'Hara-Smith
> > Odds and Ends at http://www.sohara.org/
> Mentifex video:
> https://www.tiktok.com/@sullenjoy/video/7191130287919648043

See further discussion at
https://groups.google.com/g/comp.ai.philosophy/c/pIEXENN2OhI/m/r-iwQ70xAwAJ
especially:

"Thank you for following up on Joachim's original query of ChatGPT about Mentifex.

ChatGPT is quite wrong about what Mentifex AI is based on.

https://ai.neocities.org/ChatAGI.html and all the other Mentifex AI programs thinking in English or German or Russian or Latin are based totally and solely on

https://ai.neocities.org/theory.html

which is my unique and original Theory of Mind based upon spreading activation among concepts.

Mentifex AI has nothing to do with expert systems.

Mentifex AI is a _thinking_ system, not a "production rule system."

ChatGPT may be correct in asserting that "Mentifex's approach is not widely adopted," but my efforts are underway to increase the adoption of Mentifex AI techniques by extremely devious means. One rather mild campaign is simply to invite Netizens in AI forums to try and evaluate Mentifex AI to see for themselves how a truly thinking AI operates -- not with a flood of output but with discrete thoughts and ideas. A not so mild technique of propagating Mentifex AI is to use the "fear factor" of Netizens worrying about who will win the global "AI arms race." Any corporation or university or AI lab which does not take the effort to understand and evaluate Mentifex AI is in danger of losing the race."

If it please the consortium of Old Computer retirees and expertise, we make bold to liven up this exalted but stagnant discussion forum with the latest report from the Mentifex AI Project. We have today made

https://www.tiktok.com/@sullenjoy/video/7222308831181819178

as our TikTok AI video #36 with a screenshot showing the

https://ai.neocities.org/AudListen.html webpage for auditory listening. Netizens may notice that we have replaced the old fuddy-duddy Mentifex image with a Minox spy-camera color photo not of the now superannuated Mentifex but of the then twenty-four year-old Mentifex standing in his U.S. Army uniform and holding his M-16 rifle in front of the barracks of the 23rd Ordnance Company in Germany. For our background melody we use the auditory "Music of the Spheres" by Andre Rieu and Johann Strauss. Who woulda thunk that all these TikTok AI videos came about as a rare stroke of luck BOOMERanging on us from our long-standing practice of handing out Lucky Dollars to street-persons obviously in need of encouragement?

We made our TikTok AI video #36 with the following script.

"In the truly thinking ChatAGI program and in the other Mentifex AI Minds that think in English or German or Russian or Latin, the AudListen module listens patiently for auditory input, or for the human user entering a keystroke. If no input comes during a certain interval, ChatAGI follows its own internal chain of thoughts as a sentient, intelligent being with a low level of consciousness. When auditory input comes in, AudListen calls the AudInput module. The AI Minds coded in Forth, JavaScript and Perl were created by Arthur Murray, known on the Internet as Mentifex, or Mindmaker, who served in the U.S. Army as a Nuclear Weapons Electronics Specialist. Any school or corporation or country is free to take advantage of the Mentifex cognitive architecture for Artificial General Intelligence."

On Sat, 28 Jan 2023 09:53:52 GMT, johnson wrote:
>
> On 2023-01-27, A.T. Murray <mentificium@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Are you on TikTok? Are you ready to be a ThoughtLeader and Influencer?
>> Create a TikTok video [b]#ai Mind Maintainer by #mentifex[/b] in the following easy steps.
>>
>> I. Capture a screenshot of https://...
>> for the background of your super-successful TikTok video.
>>
>> II. Follow the app instructions to make your video clickable as a link to
>> https://...
>>
>> III. In a corner of the screenshot show a speech by yourself promoting "AI Mind Maintainer" as the job of the future.
>>
>> IV. Upload the video to TikTok with a caption including hash-tags:
>> #ai Mind Maintainer by #mentifex
>
> No, we don't do TikTok

Btw. Arthur T Murray is a spammer. Please don't reply (OK, I did also
reply now) to spam.
--
Andreas

On Sat, 28 Jan 2023 15:24:46 -0500
Andreas Kohlbach <ank@spamfence.net> wrote:

> On Sat, 28 Jan 2023 09:53:52 GMT, johnson wrote:
> >
> > On 2023-01-27, A.T. Murray <mentificium@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Are you on TikTok? Are you ready to be a ThoughtLeader and Influencer?
> >> Create a TikTok video [b]#ai Mind Maintainer by #mentifex[/b] in the following easy steps.
> >>
> >> I. Capture a screenshot of https://...
> >> for the background of your super-successful TikTok video.
> >>
> >> II. Follow the app instructions to make your video clickable as a link to
> >> https://...
> >>
> >> III. In a corner of the screenshot show a speech by yourself promoting "AI Mind Maintainer" as the job of the future.
> >>
> >> IV. Upload the video to TikTok with a caption including hash-tags:
> >> #ai Mind Maintainer by #mentifex
> >
> > No, we don't do TikTok
>
> Btw. Arthur T Murray is a spammer. Please don't reply (OK, I did also
> reply now) to spam.

Nah, he's just a bit desperate for someone to tell him that his life's work has some merit.

--
Bah, and indeed Humbug.

On Sat, 28 Jan 2023 21:15:27 +0000
"Kerr-Mudd, John" <admin@127.0.0.1> wrote:

> Nah, he's just a bit desperate for someone to tell him that his life's
> work has some merit.

It is sad that it does not.

--
Steve O'Hara-Smith
Odds and Ends at http://www.sohara.org/

On Saturday, January 28, 2023 at 9:00:11 PM UTC-8, Ahem A Rivet's Shot wrote:
> On Sat, 28 Jan 2023 21:15:27 +0000
> "Kerr-Mudd, John" <ad...@127.0.0.1> wrote:
>
> > Nah, he's just a bit desperate for someone to tell him that his life's
> > work has some merit.
> It is sad that it does not.
>
> --
> Steve O'Hara-Smith
> Odds and Ends at http://www.sohara.org/

Mentifex video:
https://www.tiktok.com/@sullenjoy/video/7191130287919648043