Engaging the Robot AI Mind in Win32Forth is deceptively simple, inasmuch as all communication between human and robot occurs initially via the keyboard. The Forthmind has concepts of self and of other, so that it perceives the input word of "you" as referring to the robot and when you speak of "I" it talks to you on-screen as "you."

If you ask the AI robot, "do you love me" (without punctuation), it only knows the answer if you have already told it the answer. Although an Emotion Module is in preparation that would let the robot feel love and hate and other emotions, right now the main effort here is in getting the robot to think logically and not make spurious associations.

Mind.Forth is a kind of Seed AI but it is not meant to be a Friendly AI as such, because there is no way to guarantee friendliness on the part of an autonomous, intelligent robot. Just as human parents could give birth to a murderous Hitler or GWBush or Stalin, likewise there is no guarantee that your mind-equipped robot might not try to take over the world. It is the duty of human society as a whole, not of individual AI developers or robotics hobbyists, to decide whether we humans will permit a parallel society of robots to emerge alongside our own society in Joint Stewardship of Earth.

This AI4U is not behaving like a community member. Therefore, I propose that this guy be removed from the robots.net. If you are one of the people who have certified him please remove your certification. Or, if you're one of the people who have certified the person who certified him, remove their certification also. Come on guys this has gone on long enough. It's your job to keep up with certifications and this is a perfect example to remove certification and keep robots.net a great place to visit. Also, it would be nice if this you would remove certifications from persons who haven't logged on in a very long time as it appears some of these haven't. I know it seems cruel, but he's giving everyone a headache and something needs to be done.

Come on SB, it does seem like we are slowly training him. Is it possible to have his posts moderated? This one was very nearly on topic, and while the meanderings at the end weren't, they were actually quite relevant to the "are machines evil" religion-type chats we've been having.

AI4U - I think you've maybe missed a trick with the engagement business. A strictly keyboard interface has a crucial chunk missing from this. It's impossible to distinguish between a gap in the conversation, and someone having left the keyboard for good.

Don't you think there's a problem trying to develop true AI that has no senses other than you as a voice in its head? Have you seen the Metallica video for "One?" You should consider writing a web module that would allow your "Mind" to find things out for itself, maybe even let it post comments on blogs...

Perhaps there should be more emphasis on using mixed teams to come up with solutions. It strikes me that this is more psychological, maybe we should get psychologists to solve this for us and then use their findings on our machines afterwards.