Finally PSI our artificial, simulated being is born. It does what it's supposed to do. You will be able to see for yourself in just a few days, right here in the Internet.
In the meantime we have more work to do. We have to teach PSI our natural human language. After all, it's just a newborn, able and willing to learn, but still a blank sheet.
How to teach PSI now? The human baby has a lot of time, about two years to learn to speak. We want PSI to learn much faster though.
To start, we are developing a scenario sufficiently sophisticated but not too difficult: We teach PSI baking and cooking virtually. We show it the ingredients like flour, sugar, milk, etc., and tell it what to do with them, step by step. At the same time, we tell (in a human language) PSI, what to do.
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That way PSI not only learns to virtually bake a cake, but a the same time learns the names of the ingredients as well the names of the actions and how they relate.
After that we will vary the words describing the same ingredients and actions. In the end, we will be able to present PSI the instructions and it can bake (virtually) the cake all by itself.
Going from there we start to introduce more variety, other ingredients and change the recipe.
We'll keep you informed on the results.