🚀 go-pugleaf

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.