Table of Variables

fyi

The fyi (for your information) variable holds a single-digit number that determines the display mode of the AI Mind. With fyi at zero (0), the display is in normal mode. With fyi at one (1), the AI is in transcript mode. With fyi at two (2), tutorial mode is in effect. With fyi at three (3), diagnostic mode is in effect for troubleshooting.

kbtv

The kbtv (knowledge-base traversal) variable holds a numeric value that rotates through a range of integer numbers. In the KbTraversal module, the rotating kbtv value determines which natural-language bootstrap concept will be reactivated to start a fresh chain of thought going when there has recently been no user input. By rotating thorugh a range of values set by the AI programmer, kbtv causes the AI Mind to rotate through a variety of subject-matter concepts serving as points of departure for conversational gambits when the AI Mind offers to interact with a human user.

psi

The psi variable (from the Greek letter "psi") is a numeric identifier of a concept in the conceptual Psi array. The psi concepts represent neuronal fibers, or interwoven gangs of fibers, in the mindgrid as theorized in the AI theory of mind serving as the basis of mindforth AI.

statuscon

The term statuscon is not itself a variable but instead it denotes a class of "condition" variables as in the popular "defcon" term for "defense condition". When the statuscon variables come into use, they will permit a MindModule to be at or below a quiescent threshold so that the module will not perform its main operational function, but will remain merely ready to do so.

subjpsi

The subjpsi (subject psi concept) variable originates in the NounPhrase module to keep track of the psi concept number of any personal pronoun chosen to be the subject of a sentence being generated. In the BeVerb module, subjpsi supports conditional logic that intervenes in the wrong choice of a verb of being, causing the grammatically correct verb-form to be substituted for the originally wrong choice. As the mindforth AI evolves, this technique of verb-form intervention is not an admission of failure but rather an example of the gradual improvement of an AI algorithm as it performs its mission.

Planning

The mindforth project is contemplating a massive change of module names in the AI source code in order to wikify the names for the easier creation of documentation pages. The following items appear briefly here in order to determine if they automatically create invitational wiki-links for the editing and subsequent reading of a wiki-page of documentation.

AudRecog

EmotionOut

EnglishCog

EnVocab

FreeWill

GusRecog

IfAdjective

IfArticle

KbSearch

LispMind

ListenIn

MainLoop

MetEmPsychosis

MotorOutPut

OlfRecog

PythonBot

RubyMind

SchemeBot

SensorInPut

SensorIn

SpeechAct

SpeechOut

TacRecog

ThinkMode

TuringTest

VisRecog

Disclaimer

The information on this wiki-page is subject to change without notice. Since coding an AI Mind often rushes ahead while documentation lags behind, the description of AI variables here may fail to keep up with changes in the actual AI code. All aspects of variable usage are subject to sudden change. A variable may originate in one mind-module and then move to one or more other mind-modules. The name of a variable may change, as may the reasons for using it and the purposes which it serves.

Notice

Attn Google Code project owners and members! This wiki-page shows you how to make a Table of Variables in such a way that each variable has its own URL in a format such as http://code.google.com/p/mindforth/wiki/var#psi and so forth. If you copy this format for a Table of Variables, please give attribution of the however-lame-you-think-it-is idea with a clickable link to http://code.google.com/p/mindforth/ and please accept thanks in advance.