Today marks the end of day one of finals week of semester six at my tenure at DigiPen. Since A.I./S.I. are things I've talked about in the past, and intend to pursue further over the summer, I figure posting my "research" paper for sociology might not be a bad idea. I think there are a couple errors in the paper I need to fix, but rectifying those problems will have to wait until next week. For now, enjoy my brain dump.

http://www.nulldomain.com/files/artificial_consciousness.pdf

After taking some time and actually looking into what Cyc and OpenCyc provide, I have a couple quick points to add to my last post. I hate adding content to something already posted (editing for spelling/grammar, etc is one thing, adding or removing content, I try to avoid).

For quite a while now, I have been intrigued with the problems surrounding Artificial Intelligence. I think what initially fed my interest in this field was probably reading Snow Crash and Cryptonomicon by Neil Stephenson. But either way, over the last fifty or sixty years, a lot of time, effort, research, and development has gone into trying to create Artificial Intelligence. We have gotten to the point, where we have structures like Neural Networks and various data structures (trees, hashes, linked lists, etc) which have all found some sort of use in this area of theoretical computing.