setting up a Facebook account - ten years or so ago - invited to friend various people i might know
invited to like this or that
at some point due to having, at any rate, indicated in one way or another a connection with a certain outfit, invited to join a group
some horrible looking person acting as a (seemingly self appointed) den mother for a bunch of AI people.
seeing, then, the occasional incomprehensible message from that group ... of course, it's math, so i'm interested. but i stop following the links. (too confusing, too busy)
now, networking like my life depends on it, i try one of their links. there's a reasonable amount of information about a doctoral candidate in AI, and a link to an interview in which he and a guy who podcasts interviews with science people discuss AI. he speaks at length in a very impressive way. they are both impressive.
watching this, all the time i am thinking "could i interest these guys in my ideas?" decide not to try because the answer is obvious, but decide to offer a paper to that awful seeming person. i don't care so much if she hates me or despises me, so let's find out.
and that's pretty much that. i've decided AI means All Idiots. i mean, it's either intelligence or it isn't. you are interacting with something intelligent but somehow are convinced it is you who are intelligent. if you were intelligent you would see that this is so. apparently in this very important group they do discuss, in all sorts of arcane, obscure terms, what intelligence supposedly is. they don't know! and yet they purport to be building intelligent machines, or supervising that, or some such thing.
and i think it could be very useful, an intelligent system. if you do understand intelligence, it should be possible to build such a system, except for this: you need a language. well, you've got your lower level languages, with which you can do absolutely anything, but my tests suggest it is very hard to gain access to those languages, and they you've got your higher level languages, which you can easily access, and then you can do some things with them.
so it seems to me to really realize the potential of intelligence in a system demonstration i would need access to lower level languages. and it is evident, whether it makes sense or not, that access to lower level languages is achieved via higher level languages. and higher level languages are like catalogs. you can leaf through them and try offerings that might give you access to lower level languages. i have looked at many such offers, or, at any rate, some, because in a way they are not so numerous, but i have yet to put together a combination that gives me access.
still, i have been doing reasonably well, just for my own purposes, building a kind of resource. if you test a link and aren't sure what the result is, which is to say if you get some kind of result, and maybe a promising one, but there are next steps to take and you want to think them over before trying anything else, then if you loose that link it's just like saying "failed again." but if you can somehow keep that link - and the real challenge is where to put it so you will follow it again - then you are building a resource. you might be getting somewhere.
so, where does it go from here? i am working on the problem of gaining access to lower level language, or, to put it another way, server side methods. this paragraph is an empty variable. if you or i return here in the future it may have then been initialized. as created it isn't even a link, it is just a location that has been created for something to be added in that future.
that is half the problem, and the other half is where do i put this. it's the history of a project, the history of a project of mine, the history of "my project". it belongs on page Zero, but then again, it doesn't. it belongs on - not only here, but yes, here - a list of projects. that actually makes sense.
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