Monday, December 24, 2007
An A.I Holiday Blessing
It was that mystical time of the morning when the light of the full moon and the stars is about to give way to the warmth of the grayish orange glow rising from the east. As I laid there I could hear the gentle breathing of my son, Matthew, “He Flies High” who was sleeping on my left. My chest swelled with pride. On my right I couldn’t help but hear the heavy snoring of my friend, Al Kettle, “Were the Trees Meet the Sky”, a spiritual leader from the Seneca Nation. Soon, the drums would start. You see, for the three previous days we danced from 5 AM to 9:30 PM inside of this Sacred Circle and when the drums stopped at darkness we each collapsed and slept where we fell until the drums started again the next morning. We all laid there with bleeding feet from dancing. Our skin was the color of Mother Earth from being baked under the July sun during the three preceding days. We had completed our ultimate sacrifice the previous day and had suffered in a good way for others through our piercing and hanging until breaking free from the lone tree standing strong in the center of this Sacred Circle. We hadn’t seen nor tasted food or water for four days and most of us had succumbed to various trance-like states that had conjured up spiritual visions during the process. To the person we had all catapulted over man’s highest hurdle for achieving success-the fear of humiliation and I was sure that each of us would leave the Sacred Circle better equipped for channeling grace. We had left our egos behind so we could soar like eagles going forward. If we could just make it a few more hours we would all leave this spirit world, pass through the east gate of this Sacred Circle and walk through a gauntlet of several hundred supporters and well wishers lined up to touch and receive the healing powers from this years crop of 22 Sacred Sun Dan Warriors.
It was at this very moment that I overheard a conversation between two of my Sun Dance brothers, “Gentle Bear”, a Lakota mail carrier from South Dakota and “Night Hawk”, a Cherokee police officer from North Carolina. NH-“so GB, what’s the first thing you are going to eat at the feast they are preparing for us for later today?” GB-“Oh, I think I am going to tear into a watermelon first.” NH-“So what do you think your fellow workers at the post office would think of you if they could see you now?” GB-“Well let’s see, I’m filthy, caked in dried sweat and blood, starving and delusional and dressed in a skirt. I think I would fit their definition of ‘going postal’.” Now the conversation turned more serious. NH-“Hey GB, do you think we’ll be able to survive this final day?” GB-“Roll over on your stomach and tell me what you see.” NH-“Ok, I see the ground.” GB-“Look closer.” NH-“Ok, so I see the grass growing on this hill.” GB-“That is part of it but let me tell you what I see. I see that on each and every single blade of grass there are tiny beads of moisture from the morning dew. Can you see them?” NH-“Yes, I can.” GB-“So I think if the Creator can make sure that each and every single blade of grass is taken care of He can certainly make sure that we all survive this final day together.”
Several hours later all 22 of us walked through the east gate.
From that simple conversation comes the answer to the question, “What possessed you to do it?”
I wish you all happiness during this holiday season and may peace visit and take up permanent residence with in you throughout the coming New Year.
Bill Koehler
Kuchawayla Wakeen
Friday, December 21, 2007
Perfect A.I Enhaced Interface for Web 2.0 through Web 7.0 is Now Available
BUFFALO, N.Y., December 20, 2007—You’re on a mission, collecting info from documents, old
emails, obscure websites and arcane blogs for your latest report on the state of global warming.
In the past, you gnashed your teeth over the task. But today, you’re smiling because you’re
using TrueThinker™, a new online tool that makes learning and sharing information about any
topic easier and faster because it actually learns how you manage information.
Available today at TrueThinker.com, TrueThinker
automatically categorizes your website links, after its patented Artificial Intelligence (AI)
technology called the “AutoGnome™” learns about what data you save and how you
organize it;
helps you manage files, RSS feeds, links, images and more and;
allows you to share knowledge easily with–and learn from–communities of people
interested in the same topics you are, whether football, crystallography or allergies.
The TrueThinker experience includes these features:
My TrueThinker webpage, a dashboard or homepage that you can personalize as your
portal to the Internet.
My KnowledgeBank, where you can manually, or your AutoGnome can automatically,
store your relevant and valued information so you can find it easily.
My Communities, where you can join or create groups of people with the same social,
business, research or other interests to share resources and hold public or private
discussions.
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What’s more, you can access TrueThinker and your organized bookmarks and files from any
computer, making your accumulated knowledge on just about anything accessible from
anywhere.
“TrueThinker is the product of 40 years of AI-related research,” said William Dale Koehler,
president and CEO of As It Is, Inc., the company that created TrueThinker. “The result of that
research is a time-saving, frustration-reducing Internet tool that learns from your use.
Ultimately, individual users can start to train a virtual replica of themselves that finds relevant
information for them in that vast world of data we commonly call the Internet.”
A year-long subscription to TrueThinker costs $24.95. Sign up at www.truethinker.com
Formed in 1999, As It Is, Inc., is an intellectual capital development and holding company. The
company operates out of the State University of New York (SUNY) University at Buffalo’s
Technology Incubator in Amherst, N.Y., and has additional labs in Connecticut, Pennsylvania,
Maine and Sao Paulo, Brazil. To find out more, visit www.asitisinc.com.
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Thursday, December 20, 2007
New Online Tool Truethinker.com learns how users organise info, makes growing knowledge easier, faster
Grace Lazzara, (716) 883-5915
NEW ONLINE TOOL TRUETHINKER LEARNS HOW USERS ORGANIZE INFO,
MAKES GROWING KNOWLEDGE EASIER, FASTER
TrueThinker.com based on 40 years of research; free 30-day trial available now
BUFFALO, N.Y., December 20, 2007—You’re on a mission, collecting info from documents, old emails, obscure websites and arcane blogs for your latest report on the state of global warming. In the past, you gnashed your teeth over the task. But today, you’re smiling because you’re using TrueThinker™, a new online tool that makes learning and sharing information about any topic easier and faster because it actually learns how you manage information.
Available today at TrueThinker.com, TrueThinker
§ automatically categorizes your website links, after its patented Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology called the “AutoGnome™” learns about what data you save and how you organize it;
§ helps you manage files, RSS feeds, links, images and more and;
§ allows you to share knowledge easily with–and learn from–communities of people interested in the same topics you are, whether football, crystallography or allergies.
The TrueThinker experience includes these features:
§ My TrueThinker webpage, a dashboard or homepage that you can personalize as your portal to the Internet.
§ My KnowledgeBank, where you can manually, or your AutoGnome can automatically, store your relevant and valued information so you can find it easily.
§ My Communities, where you can join or create groups of people with the same social, business, research or other interests to share resources and hold public or private discussions.
What’s more, you can access TrueThinker and your organized bookmarks and files from any computer, making your accumulated knowledge on just about anything accessible from anywhere.
“TrueThinker is the product of 40 years of AI-related research,” said William Dale Koehler, president and CEO of As It Is, Inc., the company that created TrueThinker. “The result of that research is a time-saving, frustration-reducing Internet tool that that learns from your use. Ultimately, individual users can start to train a virtual replica of themselves that finds relevant information for them in that vast world of data we commonly call the Internet.”
A year-long subscription to TrueThinker costs $24.95. Sign up at www.truethinker.com
Formed in 1999, As It Is, Inc., is an intellectual capital development and holding company. The company operates out of the State University of New York (SUNY) University at Buffalo’s Technology Incubator in Amherst, N.Y., and has additional labs in Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Maine and Sao Paulo, Brazil. To find out more, visit www.asitisinc.com.
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Tuesday, December 18, 2007
True Thinker Overview
Through general Artificial Intelligence, TrueThinker helps Internet users efficiently save, organize, and share their documents and website links. TrueThinker learns by studying what users save and how they organize information, using a patented AI application called the AutoGnome™.
The current version of TrueThinker has three prime components – My TrueThinker, My KnowledgeBank, and My Communities. These each allow users to organize and manage all of the website links, as well as files, that they wish to store, or to share with their Communities. TrueThinker delivers three key capabilities: knowledge organization (learning), knowledge creation (thinking), and knowledge applications (acting). With its unique and novel AutoGnomic foundation for these functionalities, TrueThinker will evolve into the ubiquitous product that will transform the computer into an effective learning, thinking, and acting machine.
The My TrueThinker webpage serves as a Daily Dashboard or homepage that users can personalize as their portal to the internet. The My KnowledgeBank page is where users manually or automatically – via their trained AutoGnome – store their selected relevant and valued information for easy retrieval. The My Communities page is where users join or organize groups of people with the same social, business, research, or other common interests in order to share resources and hold discussions, publicly or privately.
Because TrueThinker users can create their own private or public communities to collect and share information, users:
• More easily and quickly increase knowledge in their areas of interest.
• Access their TrueThinker-organized bookmarks and files from any computer.
Users can organize their bookmarks and files, and they can access these from any computer. As they use the AutoGnome, TrueThinker’s underlying technology learns how they organize and classify information, so that TrueThinker can do this for users after an appropriate learning period. TrueThinker users can build online communities to organize and share knowledge.
TrueThinker is not a search engine. It is a means for Internet users to organize and personalize how they use the information they can acquire from – and share on – the Internet.
A major difference between the AutoGnome and most other AI-based Internet applications is that the AutoGnome creates its own knowledge structure without human intervention. Most other AI Internet knowledge management applications require that humans develop a data structure before they are useful.
Today, “semantic web” is considered the next state of the art for new Internet tools. The term “Artificial Intelligence” also is used in regard to new Internet tool development. As TrueThinker evolves through its planned versions over the next few years, the semantic web will be but one level of AI functionality.
With TrueThinker, the evolution of the Internet might look like this, where the AutoGnome is the technology that will enable Web 7.0:
Web 1.0 > 2.0 > 3.0 > 4.0 > 5.0 > 6.0 > 7.0
1. Web 1.0 – Syntactic Web. Has been available for several years.
a. The “original” Internet. Deals with the structure of symbols.
b. No automated tools for sharing knowledge.
c. Searches based on spelling or structure.
2. Web 2.0 – Syntactic-based Social Web (e.g., MySpace, Facebook & LinkedIn). Available now.
a. Social networks enable sharing of information, but still are based on the Syntactic Web.
3. Web 3.0 – Semantic Web (the current hype for new search tools such as Hakia or Twine). Available mostly in Beta form now.
a. Includes Web 2.0 features, plus the ability to seek and organize information based on meaning, rather than just structure.
4. Web 4.0 – Semantic-based Social Web. Future availability.
5. Web 5.0 – Pragmatic Web. Future availability.
a. Internet information searched and organized based on the context of information usage.
6. Web 6.0 – Pragmatic-based Social Web. Future availability.
7. Web 7.0– AutoGnomic Web. Available now in early form through TrueThinker.
a. The AutoGnomic Web holistically incorporates the Syntactic, Semantic, and Pragmatic functionalities and anticipates a new computing paradigm.
Here is a definition of the Pragmatic Web – Web 5.0 & 6.0 – from Wikipedia[1] :
“The Pragmatic Web consists of the tools, practices, and theories describing why and how people use information. In contrast to the Syntactic Web and Semantic Web, the Pragmatic Web is not about form or meaning of information. The transformation of existing information into information relevant to a group of users or an individual user includes the support of how users locate, filter, access, process, synthesize, and share information.”
TrueThinker’s AutoGnome technology incorporates Pragmatic Web 5.0, and Pragmatic Social Web 6.0 features, and delivers the benefits of Web 7.0, the AutoGnomic (Semiotic) Web. The present goal of As It Is, Inc., is the creation of Web 7.0 through a Pragmatic Action Methodological approach to both a Synthetic Mind and Virtuality. This is called the AutoGnomic Intellisite™.
This is seen as potentially more useful to the majority of Internet users than is expected from the current research being conducted by other developers of Artificial Intelligence tools. Non-AutoGnome-based AI tools restrict other researchers by the absence of a standard theory of mind.
Those wanting to experience the power of TrueThinker can do so free and at no risk by visiting www.truethinker.com.
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pragmatic_web
