Eurisko, The Computer With A Mind Of Its Own

http://www.aliciapatterson.org/APF0704/Johnson/Johnson.html

by petercooper • 18 years ago

34 13 18 years ago

gaika• 18 years ago

Unit of bogosity is the lenat, named after Douglas Lenat. Like the farad it is considered far too large a unit for practical use, so bogosity is usually expressed in microlenats.

akkartik3• 18 years ago

But it wasn't always thus. In the dawn of time Lenat actually did stuff.

Funnily enough, I've been playing around with a port of AM for the past coupla weeks. I've had the code for years and never looked at it until now. What got you on Lenat, Peter?

I think the world's coolest AI programs are Eurisko, Copycat and AM.

cabalamat2• 18 years ago

> In the dawn of time Lenat actually did stuff.

Harsh, but probably fair. Or as Eliezer Yudkowsky put it "EURISKO may still be the most sophisticated self-improving AI ever built [...] by Douglas Lenat before he started wasting his life on Cyc."

> I've been playing around with a port of AM for the past coupla weeks.

From where is the code for AM available? I ask because some people on an AI list I subscribe to think the Eurisko code is unavailable (but would like to get hold of it). You wouldn't have the Eurisko code too, by any chance?

> I think the world's coolest AI programs are Eurisko, Copycat and AM.

I would agree, in terms of modelling general cognition.

rsheridan6• 18 years ago

The story behind that term: http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/M/microLenat.html

Tangurena• 18 years ago

I used to play Traveller, and our group at college didn't play the ship-to-ship combat part, just the role playing game (think of it as D&D with only 6-sided dice, space ships and other planets instead of dungeons).

Thanks for bringing this story back up.

speek• 18 years ago

"We're building a machine that will be proud of us"

wooby• 18 years ago

Lenat's been working on this since the 80s: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyc

rejoyy• 18 years ago

interesting read until i came to the part where douglas photo is displayed... is it just me or does he look like jake gyllenhaal?..

asciilifeform• 18 years ago

Dr. Lenat still refuses to disclose the source code of Eurisko. He is even on record as having claimed that it was "lost", which seems unlikely.

What is more probable is that the program's much-hyped accomplishments were done with substantial human hand-holding a la Deep Blue, and the author will not risk his decades of academic prestige by allowing us to see the code and judge how high it could have flown on its own.

dang• 3 years ago

https://web.archive.org/web/20050308172043/http://www.alicia...

Eurisko, The Computer With A Mind Of Its Own

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