1. Thurs.9.FEB.2012 -- Unspoken Be-Verbs as a Default

The Russian-speaking artificial intelligence Dushka needs a default BeVerb module that will silently assert itself as the automatic carrier of thought until a non-be-verb takes over from the provisional default. In our coding of a Russian mind, we will assume that any noun or pronoun, beginning a thought in the nominative case, is automatically the subject of a putative BeVerb until proven otherwise. In this way, our cognitive software will prepare for a BeVerb and switch automatically when a non-be-verb occurs.

We should work first on the comprehension of putative be-verbs and second on their generation, so that what we learn in comprehending be-verbs may be used in generating thoughts involving a BeVerb. So we type into the AI a Russian sentence to see if the software can understand it.

Human: душка робот

Robot: ДУШКРЧТО ДУШКРТÐКОЕ

We said "Dushka is a robot" but the AI responded only, "Dushka -- what is Dushka?" We need to implement a default BeVerb in the comprehension of a sentence that lacks a visible BeVerb.

In the InStantiate module, we can trap for the input of a "c==32" space-bar when the "seqneed" is set to "8" for want of an incoming verb. We may then do something outrageous, but normal for Russian. From InStantiate we may provisionally send into AudMem a space-bar character with an "audpsi" of "800" for the verb БЫТЬ ("to be"), so that the AI is ready to record any noun coming in as a predicate nominative in conjunction with the be-verb. Now, if we implement such an outrageous step, it is possible that our AI memory-banks will become replete with quasi-spurious engrams of infinitive be-verbs that typically do not materialize. It could be that the presence of a spurious be-verb engram will not matter, if the cancellation of the default occurs as soon as some actual verb comes in. Then cancelling the spurious default will involve removing or nullifying any associative tags laid down momentarily during the enactment of the default.

2. Fri.10.FEB.2012 -- Instantiating Imaginary Be-Verbs

In the InStantiate module we will now experiment with code to create in auditory memory a pseudo-engram of a non-existent be-verb after the perception of a nominative noun or pronoun. Since the Russian-speaking mind waits for a predicate nominative, it needs at least an imaginary be-verb as the holder of associative links between subject and predicate nominative.

Now inside InStantiate we have assembled the code that creates a be-verb pseudo-engram in the three memory arrays for "Psi" concepts, Russian words and auditory engrams. The Psi node is automatically creating a "pre" tag that links the pseudo-verb back to its subject. We need to implement code that will finish the intermediation of the unspoken Russian BeVerb between its subject and the predicate nominative. The code must also cancel or uninstall the imaginary BeVerb if a real verb occurs instead of the provisionally expected BeVerb.

3. Sat.11.FEB.2012 -- Integration of Default Be-Verbs

We have the AI pretending that a BeVerb comes in after a nominative subject, and now we need to create the "seq" tag from the subject to the default BeVerb. First in the InStantiate module we insert a line of code declaring that the pseudo-be-verb is indeed a verb with respect to its part of speech, so that the following code will try to reach backwards to the subject engram and install a "seq" tag referring to the now not-so-imaginary BeVerb. We run the Dushka AI and we type in, Ñ‚Ñ‹ робот -- which is Russian for "You are a robot", but without the be-verb. We are puzzled when Dushka answers, Я ЧТО Я ТÐКОЕ ("I -- WHAT AM I?") and that's all she wrote. It may indicate that her concept of self has been activated by the input referring to "you", but she does not seem to have understood the input. We check the diagnostic display, and we see that her concept of self now has a "seq" tag referring right back to herself instead of to the default Russian BeVerb. What went wrong? We look at the JavaScript source code again, and we see that it was not enough to set the part-of-speech as a verb. We go ahead and we set the Psi concept-number to be that of the Russian be-verb. Then we run the Russian AI again with the same input and we sit there in shock when the AI announces to us: Я РОБОТ. Dushka has just said to us, "I AM A ROBOT" in Russian. From the diagnostic display we discover that the same changes that made Dushka able to understand the idea, made her able to think the idea.