TANTALIZER 226

 

The picture was generated by AI using the description "A school girl wearing an orange blazer which has a pink badge on the pocket. The girl is wearing a turquoise hat and a khaki scarf. Her skirt is black"

SCHOOL COLOURS

 

TELL ME, PROFERROR PINHOLE, WHICH SCHOOL DOES YOUR DAUGHTER ALICE GO TO.

 

LET ME THINK.

 IS IT THE ONE WITH THE ORANGE HAT AND THE TURQUOISE SCARF?

OR WITH THE KHARKI BLAZER AND THE ORANGE EMBLEM?

OR WITH THE PINK BLAZER AND THE ORANGE SCARF?

OR WITH THE KHARKI SCARF AND PINK EMBLEM?

OR WITH THE KHAKI HAT AND TURQUOISE EMBLEM?

I FEAR I CANNOT RECOLLECT.

 

GOOD HEAVENS. PROFESSOR, HOWEVER MANY SCHOOLS ARE THERE?

 

JUST FOUR AND I HAVE ONE DAUGHTER AT EACH.

BETH GOES TO ST GERTRUDE'S

CLARE WEARS  A TURQUIOSE HAT AND

DEBBIE WEARS A KHARKI EMBLEM.

ST ETHELREDA'S FLAUNTS A PINK SCARF,

ST FAITH'S AN ORANGE BLAZER AND

ST IDA'S A PINK HAT.

 

ANE WHOSE ARE THOSE CLOTHES FLUNG DOWN ON THE FLOOR OVER THERE?

 

THE TURQUOISE HAT AND THE KHARKI BLAZER BELONG TO DIFFERENT GIRLS.

AS FOR THE TURQUOISE BLAZER, WELL I THINK YOU MIGHT WORK THAT OUT FOR YOURSELF."

Author Martin Hollis

Published in the New Scientist

 

More information about  TANTALIZE - a heuristic problem solver written in CODIL

Try and solve the puzzle yourself before seeing how TANTALIZE solves it.

Exchanging information about CODIL and related topics

 

The purpose of this blog is to encourage the change of information of information about CODIL, the underlying theory and its relation to human and artificial intelligence.  It will also be concerned with the history of the CODIL project and the problems of providing support for unconventional "blue sky" ideas, especially when the person who has those ideas is neurodiverse. Constructive criticism is alway welcome - as such criticism is at the heart of all healthy scientific research.

Transparency, CODIL, and the Horizon "black box" Software

 

One of the biggest difficulties faced by chatbots and other AI packages based on large language models is that they are black box systems which lack transparency. The same difficulty can also apply to large conventionally programmed commercial applications where the lack of transparency can have serious consequences. This problem has been spectacularly demonstrated by the problems caused by the General Post Office's Horizon software where innocent postmasters ended in prison because of errors in the "black box" software. Part of the problem was that the courts were prepared to accept as reliable "evidence" from a complex "black box" system which was unable to answer questions about the origins or reliability of the evidence it was being provided.

Trapped by the Box (Blog)

 In reading this blog you will links taking you to blogs  I no longer have access to due to antique software and lost passwords, in part due to a serious computer failure and a failure in keeping proper backed up records. 

 

AI generated pictures

As I have aphantasis I am not good a drawing images because I have aphantasia I cannot inagine what they would look like - but I can describe them in words.  As a result I have used Bing to create images from a word description and used the results in the earlier blog posts. I found some of the results very impressive - but when I came to the post "What is CODIL" the AI package demonstrated how little it understands what it is doing. I simply asked for a picture of a laptop with the word "CODIL" on the screen. This completely floored it and however I reworded the request it usually used the word "COIL" or "COLL". So I repeated the request for a picture of a shop front with someone standing outside, with the name "CODIL" and it offered three pictures of a shop called "CODE" and this interesting variation.

The Hype associated with early AI research

‘Did the Hype Associated with Early AI Research Lead to Alternative Routes Towards Intelligent Interactive Computer Systems Being Overlooked?’

By Chris Reynolds, chris@codil.co.uk 

Introductory statements for panel  session "AI – Future Realities" chaired by John Handby at "Archives of IT Forum on the Histories of the Internet,"  London, 9 January 2024

Artificial Intelligence research has involved chasing one heavily funded and overhyped  paradigm after another, with intervening AI winters. A study of the commercially unsuccessful projects can tell you a lot about the economic and political environment that decided which projects should get funded and which would be abandoned, 

A Possible Model of the Brain's Symbolic Assembly Language?

 On 26-27th September 2022 the Royal Society, London, held a discussion meeting on "Cognitive Artificial Intelligence" at which the following poster was displayed:

A summary of the publications covering the original CODIL research

General Introduction and the Software Interpreters

CODIL started as the symbolic assembly language of an unconventional computer processor design, proposed in 1967, where the aim was to produce a "white box" system which would work symbiotically with people in the field of non-numerical information processing applications. The hardware was never built but four different software interpreters were written which have shown that the approach was feasible, and would support a wide variety of applications. The four versions of the interpreter were as follows:

Could CODIL model how the brain processes information because I have aphantasia?

 On the 18th January 2024 the Aphantasia Foundation published the following note onto LinkedIn  which is very relevant to this question.

What is CODIL?

 

CODIL (COntext Dependent Information Language) is an early (1960s) experimental human-computer interaction language which was originally based on first-hand experience working on a 100% manual international  management information system handling research and development correspondence for a veterinary subsidiary of the Wellcome Foundation, followed by a period of programming and systems analysis on one of the largest sales accounting batch-processing computer system of the period, involving several LEO III computers handling sales for the oil marketing company Shell-Mex & BP. At the time many computer manufacturers were planning for the first generation of computers which hopefully could support integrated management systems with user terminals.