From c7c2ff9b9d45d15b9e715aa72449733dc0178420 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Amin Bandali Date: Sun, 19 Jul 2020 15:52:59 -0400 Subject: delete duplicate material, add some copyright notices --- 2019/transcripts/07.md | 136 ------------------------------------------------- 1 file changed, 136 deletions(-) delete mode 100644 2019/transcripts/07.md (limited to '2019/transcripts/07.md') diff --git a/2019/transcripts/07.md b/2019/transcripts/07.md deleted file mode 100644 index ff64e0ce..00000000 --- a/2019/transcripts/07.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,136 +0,0 @@ -[[!meta title="A.I. that Helps Play the Game of Your Life - Andrew J. Dougherty"]] - -- What if you collect thousands of A.I. tools and apply them towards - planning your life? That's exactly what FRDCSA has been working on - for the last twenty years. Only soon, you can download a VM - containing the core systems. In today's increasingly complex world, - sometimes we can be blindsided by rules we didn't know existed. If - you're living on the edge, this can be a disaster. What if all the - rules that applied to us, from legal, to financial, to just basic - common sense, were collected into a system that was capable of - reasoning with them and planning with them. You could put your - objectives into the system and it would factor in all these things - and spit out a plan. Well that's just one of the many things that - FRDCSA's Free Life Planner A.I. seeks to do. - -- A.I. is problem-solving, and software that can do this has to grow - larger as problems and their complexity multiply. Over the last 20 - years the FRDCSA project has collected thousands of codebases, and - written hundreds of codebases, gluing everything together and making - it available from within Emacs, Perl and Prolog. The Free Life - Planner, FLP, takes this and applies it directly towards assisting - users in their minute-to-minute, day-to-day, year-to-year lives. - -- Think of a massive collection like V'ger had in Star Trek: The - Motion Picture, of things like strong game-playing systems like - AlphaZero, but tailored to the specific problems people most often - encounter with finances, meal-planning, transportation, health care, - etc. - -- If you're interested in a personal A.I. assistant, stay tuned as we - cover the Free Life Planner. But it is after all only one of over - 600 custom codebases developed for FRDCSA. Soon, Panoply, the - virtual machine distribution of FRDCSA, will be released for you to - explore. So, let's have a look at some of what FRDCSA can do for - you. - -- FRDCSA wants to help you solve as many problems as it can, treating - the world as a game which it tries to win, by proofs that bad things - don't happen. We know that if a set of problems constitutes t bits - of information, and a set of programs contains less than t bits of - information, then it is impossible to solve these problem from these - programs. When it comes to AI, bigger is better. In 2002 this led - me to Emacs, Perl, Debian and Cyc, and a growing list of over - 100,000 external codebases. In fact, FRDCSA excels at finding and - packaging software, and exposing APIs for reuse. - -- Someone once asked me, what does FRDCSA do? I couldn't give them an - answer. I didn't know where to begin. There aren't any silver - bullets to demonstrate. So where does Emacs fit in? It is the - develop console, mission control, where most development and usage - occurs. There are dozens of modes, thousands of key-bound - functions. Let's look at some representative Emacs systems written - because we couldn't find anything with similar capabilities. - -- This is UniLang, a multi-agent system facilitator, and a core FRDCSA - system. UniLang let's all the systems talk to each other. For the - Free Life Planner we want to spider the internet, to find, retrieve - and index rules and software, to apply them towards improving the - way we live on a daily basis. But to intelligently spider you need - to be able to understand the text. Because lots of useful - information on the internet is in text form, FRDCSA is heavily - focused on natural language understanding. - -- This is NLU, it's a system based on semantically annotating text. - -- Okay, so our spider is helping us to locate rules. But what about - software, we still need more software. New software is being - written all the time, how do we gather it? IES is an information - extraction system, it allows you to label text like software - metadata using text properties, and then train a model and use it to - label other text. This way we can extract information about - software systems we want to acquire and package. - -- Okay great, we're getting more software, now what do we do? Let's - go back to rules for a minute. We have a lot of text, but how do we - translate it into a machine-readable format? That's where NLU-MF - comes in. Okay we have rules in a machine readable format, but how - do we know when they're applicable? We have to store the - world-state somehow. Enter FreeKBS2, our free knowledge-based - system, with persistent storage of rules and facts. It is a useful - Emacs front-end for rapidly manipulating symbolic rules and facts - and editing the knowledge-base. - -- So now we have some refined executable rules. How do we reason with - these common sense rules? Enter the Cyc system, undoubtedly the - world's largest, most sophisticated, common sense A.I.. But Cyc is - proprietary. Well, thanks to Douglas Miles, the author of the free - (libre) LogicMOO system, that's not a problem anymore. LogicMOO - aims to be backward compatible with Cyc itself. Let's demonstrate - our cyc-mode-2, which aims to create a deep channel between Emacs - and LogicMOO. - -- Today's software is fantastic, but there's not a lot in the way of - integrated approaches to planning one's life to improve the way we - live on a daily basis. The version of Free Life Planner on the - Panoply VM distribution currently does calendaring, recurrences, - reminders, planning, scheduling and execution. But the good news - is, we can make it a lot better. The potential for a rule-based - crowd-sourced life planner is tremendous. - -- People finally started understanding better what FLP, and to some - extent, FRDCSA, does when I wrote the following use case story. - It's the homeless-story.html, I'll provide the link later. It's the - story of a person facing homelessness who uses FLP to escape - homelessness. I highly suggest you read it to familiarize yourself - with the FLP. Some people think it is science-fiction, but I assure - you this story is doable with the tools we've collected. - -- Okay, where are we? We have a rule-based system, but our software - cannot do everything, no piece of software can. We have lists of - software that the spider and IES got us. Retrieving it is easy, - packaging it is hard. How do we package this software? Why not - record ourselves packaging software to add data to the A.I. so it - can learn how to make packages. - -- So we have lots of data about how to package, but now the system has - to figure out how to make packages on its own. It needs to be able - to think and plan. What's more, once the software is packaged, FLP - has to figure out how to use that software. Enter the software - robot called Prolog-Agent. Prolog-Agent is an intelligent agent - under development that can control Emacs in order to achieve - objectives, and will eventually be able to make use of recorded - traces. - -- So now we have all these rules and software, but wouldn't it be nice - if we could help teach the users some of the rules, and how to use - the software. That's what CLEAR does. CLEAR is a great way to have - books, manuals, websites, etc, read to you, allowing you to pause, - quit, resume and filter out nonsense. - -- If you'd like to get a copy of Panoply when the public alpha is - hopefully released in a few months, please email me. I will add - your name to the mailinglist. But also, please join us at `#frdcsa` - and/or `#freelifeplanner` on freenode. I would like you to try out - the FRDCSA, familiarize yourself with it, and test it. Thank you so - much for listening. Have a great day. -- cgit v1.2.3