Comment Science museums as habitat for AI Minds (Score 0, Informative) 435
- Ask your local science museum if they have an AI Mind exhibit. If they do not, volunteer to install MindForth as an AI exhibit.See which museum is the home of the oldest living artificial intelligence.Albuquerque NM -- New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science
- Baltimore MD -- Maryland Science Center Berkeley CA -- Lawrence Hall of Science Bloomingtown IN -- Wonderlab Museum of Science, Health, & Technology
Boston MA -- Museum of Science - Brantford, Ontario, Canada -- Personal Computer Museum
- Charlotte NC -- Discovery Place
- Chicago IL -- Museum of Science and Industry
- Columbus OH -- Center of Science and Industry (COSI)
- Detroit MI -- Detroit Science Center Jersey City NJ -- Liberty Science Center Kansas City MO -- Science City at Union Station
- Los Angeles CA -- the California Science Center
- Louisville KY -- the Louisville Science Center
- Manchester UK -- Museum of Science and Industry (MoSI)
- Mobile AL -- the Gulf Coast Exploreum Science Center
- Mountain View CA -- Computer History Museum
- New York City NY -- the New York Hall of Science
- Norwich VT -- Montshire Museum of Science
- Philadelphia PA -- the Franklin Institute Science Museum
- Pittsburgh PA -- Carnegie Science Center
- San Francisco CA --
The Exploratorium
- Mind exhibit at The Exploratorium
- Santa Ana CA -- Discovery Science Center
- Seattle WA -- The Pacific Science Center
- Shreveport LA -- the Sci-Port Discovery Center
- St. Louis MO -- the St. Louis Science Center
- Troy NY -- the Children's Museum of Science and Technology
- Tyler TX -- Discovery Science Place
- Winston-Salem NC -- Sci-Works
When the first true artificial intelligence, MindForth by Mentifex, went operational in January of 2008 and started thinking after a decade of arduous development, there was a companion program in JavaScript called Mind.html that ran directly off the Web in the Microsoft Internet Explorer (MSIE) browser. All a user with MSIE had to do was click on the link to see the JavaScript artificial intelligence (JSAI) flit across the 'Net and take up residence in the Windows (tm) computer of the human user. It was so simple -- no programming involved, no set-up, no security worries, no need of expert help -- like, for instance, a docent at a museum.
But the JSAI tutorial program remains very limited in what it can do and in what people can do with it. It is not suitable for installation as the mind of a robot, because a JavaScript program is not allowed -- for security reasons -- to control anything but the Web browser on its host computer. The JavaScript AI program also runs so slowly that it tries user patience. The user waiting for a response from the JSAI does not see the intensive computation going on behind the scenes as the artificial Mind races through its memory banks to think up a response to an input from the user. Nevertheless the Mind.html JSAI is very good at what it is intended to do. Since JavaScript is a flashier, more visually appealing language than staid old Win32Forth, the JSAI serves its tutorial purpose admirably. It shows graphically how an AI Mind thinks. It also includes clickable links to other resources, such as the User Manual, the more difficult to install but intrinsically more powerful MindForth, and potentially to any science museum where users may visit MindForth. Thus the Mind.html AI -- which is ridiculously easy to make copies of and install on a Web site -- is out there on the Web, inviting users to visit science museums in search of the real thing -- MindForth.