Something Different

There Is a Time for Everything

Something New

And now, for something completely new. My long-term goal is to design and build a truly intelligent machine. By this, I mean a robot or computer program that is capable of general learning and of interacting intelligently with a complex environment using a multiplicity of sensors and effectors. The system will be adaptable, that is, it will be capable of both appetitive and aversive behavior. If I (or anybody else) succeed in building such a machine, there is no question that the underlying technology would have a tremendous impact on the world. Every sector of human society would be affected. This is to be expected. But something else has entered the picture, something that even I had not anticipated; something that is certain to upset the applecart, so to speak, even more so than the arrival of true AI on the scene.

Nine years ago, I ran into a brick wall. I had a good handle on sensory and motor learning but, for the life of me, I could not figure out how memory is organized. I had no idea how a number of important aspects of intelligence work. The mechanisms of anticipation, concept formation, credit assignment, adaptation, attention, short and long-term memory completely escaped me. I kept on designing and experimenting with one new scheme after another, to no avail. And then (December 2002) I made an amazing discovery, one which I credit for the breathtaking progress I have made since then. While reading the book of Revelation in the Bible, I noticed a strange parallel between parts of my work and some of the metaphors used in the so-called messages to the seven churches of Asia. I decided to take a closer look. What I found is nothing short of astounding. You can read all about it on this site. There is a lot of information to go through and the work is still in progress. So I suggest you first take a look at the following pages:

I regularly post short articles in the Rebel Science News. I use it mainly as a place to document my progress. The Preamble is an excellent starting point for those who want to read a quick background information without having to learn all the details.

Let me add here that I make no apologies to anyone for either my religious beliefs or my Biblical AI research. Some have taken to ridiculing me, and my name is already on several internet crackpot lists. So be it. I am not phased in the least. If anything, the more strident my detractors are, the more resolute I become. I know what I got and, as some of you can garner from my work on software reliability, I am not normally given to flights of fancy. Sorry for being so blunt, but as they say in France, rira bien qui rira le dernier (laughs best he who laughs last). And as John wrote in the book of Revelation, he who has an ear, let him hear what the spirit says to the churches. As for the others, oh well... to each his own.

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