AIKO - "The Child of Artificial Intelligence" (in Japanese "ko" means child; "ai" means love denoting the "emotional intelligence" aspect of the project)
Both, the most advanced science, the quantum physics, as well as the millennia of spiritual training in Zen have brought the humanity to some interesting conclusions. Everything is of the same nature - the flux of energy, everything is relative, furthermore it can exist in multiple states at the same time.
If the wisest of us recognize these principles, why then the computer science, that practically runs our modern world, is so fixated on the narrow-minded idea of "true" or "false" and nothing between?
Most of the computing nova-days is created based on hard rules and predefined knowledge-base which is the cause of its many shortcomings. It is not flexible, not adaptable, and specialized in the very narrow area of expertise.
If we compared it to the living world it would be like a chicken raised by a certain fast-food chains. Too heavy to be effectively supported by the body, unable to feed itself in the nature, surviving only in the machine-fed, confined, cage. As much as I hate the malicious hackers myself (let them burn in hell forever for all that spam and havoc they create), I must say that even today's computer viruses are pathetic, they take the advantage of a very particular security hole and as soon as the breach is closed they are useless. This "brilliance" of today's programs pales in comparison with the simplest living bacteria which when placed in a new environment starts to adapt and within almost hours its future generations embrace the change. Evolution.
In the AIKO project I will attempt to combine the evolutionary approach to the software growth, affective computing, emotional intelligence, pattern recognition, simple language recognition.
AIKO may have infinite applications; for example is can be used as a personal assistant, a tutor, a smart filing manager with the industry-specific applications for particular file types.
by: Uki Dominque Lucas
original concept: November 9, 1999
