What we really wanted was some way of suggesting which columns to record in the data sets (=design of new experiments, theory-generation). CYC seemed atr the time to be the only feasible way to go here, which Doug did. Can you point me to papers about current progress in this area?

Something else I noticed: You said in one of your interviews that you prefer the term ‘Sentient Machines’ to ‘Artificical Intelligence’. You said something to the effect that you think of these potential machines as evo-extensions of us – as machines capable of representing all of what makes a human human – but in addition, it would be able to interface with the environment in a way that would be beyond any we, as humans, could even theorize about.

What I loved was what you said later, in interview part 5-6 when you described your team, which has been built up over the last ten years. You said that they ‘would be fine even if I wasn’t there’. I smiled because I couldn’t help but notice that you, in a way, have already created a sentient machine. Your team is an extension of your original idea. They carry on at exponentially faster speeds, I’d wager, every day, with the memes you helped give pragmatic birth to, even if you are not there…an extension of you as your quantum self. Kind of neat.

Yes, that was intended as a meta-joke. I suppose I could’ve made some reference to an exponentially large superposition…. but no… I won’t go there.

now I know whats holding up that Rainier demo