The Secret of AI

Artificial intelligence experts often ask me if I am intelligent, then insinuate that I am not. I think it's insulting. Albert Einstein was intelligent but nobody went nuclear with him over that. Einstein was intelligent because he worked full time saying clever things like:

• The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.
• Imagination is more important than knowledge.
• The only real valuable thing is intuition.
• Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.

You will find statements like these adorning numerous pages throughout the Web, where Einstein posted them. The implications for artificial intelligence are clear. In order to appear intelligent, one must say clever things. And to say clever things one need only model ones statements after Albert Einstein's. Since however Einstein's quotes are finite, to be truly convincing the statements must first be converted to infinity. This may be done easily by cutting the statements in half and mixing them up again. If you start with 10 statements this results in 10*10 new ideas, a total of 101 in all. A sample:

• The difference between stupidity and genius is a very persistent one.
• Imagination is more important than mere illusion.
• Genius is somewhere between knowledge and intuition.
• The only real thing is reality.

I added some recursive looping and went on to get 101*101 new statements, but did not stop there. I continued, processers racing like a Mos 6502 in an Intel Core i7, stopping at last after using e equals mc squared volts of electricity. Unfortunately, when I was finished all I had left was a large stack of words and no idea how to put them together again. But I will try to use one of them whenever I have a chance. Maybe Einstein's chaos theory of AI says it best:

• Genius is seldom orderly, orderliness seldom of genius.

There is a contest going on now called the Chatterbox Challenge, with all kinds of judges doing some kinds of tests to show they are cleverer than us artificial intelligence systems. Please have a visit at Chatterboxchallenge.com.