There ought to be a law against Do-It-Yourself Artificial Intelli-
gence (DIY AI), because look at what has already begun to happen:
/^^^^^^^^^^^\ Mind-grid Arrays{ } in Robot PDAI /^^^^^^^^^^^\
/visual memory\ _________ / auditory \
| /--------|---------\ / LANG-UK \ | memory |
| | recog-|nition | \_________/---|-------------\ |
| ___|___ | | flush-vector| | ________ | |
| /image \ | ____V_ ____V__ | / \ | |
| / percept \ | /psi{ }\------/ uk{ } \----|-/ ear{ } \| |
| \ engrams /---|---/concepts\----/ lexicon \---|-\ phonemes / |
| \_______/ | \________/ \_________/ | \________/ |
http://www.scn.org/~mentifex/ The Mindmaker Project will link you
to "The Art of Computer Mindmaking" -- a step-by-step instruction
manual on how any junior high school kid or precocious university
professor can hack up some code and produce a thinking automaton.
http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~phoenix/vinge/vinge-sing.html Vernor
Vinge has already warned us about what could conceivably go wrong
with AI, but Vinge also states that the rush to AI is inescapable.
http://www.opensource.org/halloween1.html Eric S. Raymond teaches
us DIY AI enthusiasts how to "harness the collective IQ" of count-
less individuals flung like stars across the Web of the Internet.