Well for the past year or so I have been dabbling in the field of building an artificial brain, somewhat akin to the human brain. I prefer to call it a brain than an AI, simply because that term is so overused, it's not cool. I prefer to be thought of as a mad scientist, and building a brain sounds much cooler than writing an AI.
Egor is a computer program I am working on which has an equivalent of a brain database, which can read and interpret natural language (english), answer questions, do reasoning and generally be quite a fun and helpful chap. I won't provide full information here about how Egor works, I'll save that for a later book or similar (if I am continually successful). I would rather fully test my ideas before revealing them, rather than showing an unfinished work.
Of course I am sure there are umpteen thousand different people working on their own little 'egors', but this one's mine, so that's why you are reading about it here lol. The fact that there are so many people working in this field, for several decades, without any (in my mind) really significant developments .. gives you an idea that the answer to the 'problem' of AI is not altogether obvious. Although it may be obvious once the answer has been found .. many things seem obvious in retrospect. Kind of like evolution .. so simple, yet it took ages for someone to work it out, and once it was worked out, it turned the world upside down.
The reason Egor is being designed to read english is simply because that is my own language. It has occurred to me at certain points that I could quite possibly build the whole system as multilingual. However, that is an addition that could be made at a later date, and the slight added complexity of this would probably exponentially add to the time of initial development. In short I'm quite happy to leave multilingual development to a later stage, or to other people. KISS. Keep it simple, stupid lol.
And why the name Egor? Actually I was very influenced by the movie 'Team America' and their advanced AI machine, called 'Intelligence'. The idea of a bumbling, slightly retarded computer is great and I feel is something to aim for.. I have even modelled Egor's voice on 'Intelligence'.
The name itself actually comes from the Frankenstein type movies. The mad professor's hunchbacked assistant is always called 'Egor', there's a master servant thing going on there. And so that is what I use, for Egor, the pitiful but obedient slightly cute servant. I wanted to be able to say 'BAD EGOR!!' when he gets things wrong, and 'good egor!' when he gets things right.
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