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>>peterc+(OP)
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.

>>gaika+o2
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.

>>akkart+m3
> 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.