AI Mind Maintainer Overview and Job Description

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Abstract
A curriculum is presented for the start of a year-long course in artificial intelligence (AI) leading to a Certificate for AI Mind Maintainer.

Introduction
An AI mind maintainer is a human or robotic being who watches over the functioning of a mission-critical AI installation and performs upkeep and repairs as needed.

1. Software

Using the AI Perlmind codebase as an example, we advise trainees in mind-maintainenance carefully to select a software mind-module in which to specialize on the basis of acquired expertise. No human mind-maintainer will be able to grasp the proverbial big picture of the entire AI Mind as it evolves and spawns over space and time.

2. Hardware

Specialists in AI mind-maintenance must become not only familiar but also deeply knowledgeable about computer and robot hardware.

3. Venues

[High School] The first AI Mind installations will be in high-school computer classrooms. The teacher or teacher's aide or star student will be the AI Mind Maintainer, showing students how to run the AI Mind in Perl or JavaScript or Forth, thinking in English or in Latin or in Russian.

[Academia] Subsequent installations will be in college dormitories and college AI Labs. Interested parties will specialize in particular mind-modules, such as VisRecog for visual recognition or Volition for FreeWill in robots.

[Science Museums] Docents are needed to demonstrate AI.

[Fortune 500 Companies] Devil take the hindmost.

4. Education and Training

Schools, colleges and universities should offer programs of instruction in the profession of mind-tending and mind-maintaining.

Your school or college here.

See AI 101 AI 102 AI 103 year-long community college course curriculum for AI in English.

See College Course in Russian AI for Community Colleges or Universities.

See Classics Course in Latin AI for Community Colleges or Universities.

Visit Workey to look for some pertinent career advice.

http://www.codeschool.com -- ask them to develop a program.

http://www.codefellows.org -- will they teach AI coding and maintenance?

5. Certification and Licensing

Whether issued by a government or by a professional guild, attestations as to the skill and knowledge and reliability of an AI Mind maintainer will allow AI workers to move about in the AI industry and to advance in their careers.

Will Workey step up to the plate?

6. Professional Societies

Think of the conventions and the speechifying, the jostling for power and prestige, the chance to get away from work and to travel to such a prestigious event as a Meeting of the Mind-Maintainers.

http://themaintainers.org -- The Maintainers -- expertise to sustain our world
- https://lists.stevens.edu/mailman/listinfo/themaintainers -- join the discussion.

http://www.siop.org/CareerPaths -- Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology
- https://www.reddit.com/r/IOPsychology-- discussion forum.

7. Books, Manuals, Newsletters, Etc.

Memoirs of a Mind-Maintainer?
The Care and Feeding of Artificial Minds?
Handbook of Mind Maintenance?

http://aiweekly.co -- Artificial Intelligence News - Weekly

AI4U (paperback) -- http://www.amazon.com/dp/0595259227

AI4U (hardbound) -- http://www.amazon.com/dp/0595654371

The Art of the Meme (Kindle eBook) -- http://www.amazon.com/dp/B007ZI66FS

Artificial Intelligence in Ancient Latin (paperback) -- https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08NRQ3HVW

Artificial Intelligence in Ancient Latin (Kindle eBook) -- https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08NGMK3PN

Artificial Intelligence in German (Kindle eBook) -- http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00GX2B8F0

InFerence at Amazon USA (Kindle eBook) -- http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00FKJY1WY

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8. Spread the News on TikTok and Other Venues

Are you on TikTok? Are you eager to be a ThoughtLeader and Influencer?
Create a TikTok video #ai Mind Maintainer by #mentifex in the following easy steps.

I. Capture a screenshot of https://ai.neocities.org/maintainer.html
for the background of your TikTok video.

II. Follow the app instructions to make your video clickable as a link to https://ai.neocities.org/maintainer.html

III. In a corner of the screenshot show a speech by yourself promoting "AI Mind Maintainer" as the job of the future.

IV. Upload the video to TikTok with a caption including all-important hash-tags:
#ai Mind Maintainer by #mentifex

A sample video is at
https://www.tiktok.com/@sullenjoy/video/7191130287919648043

9. Employment Opportunities

http://www.aimechanic.com/category/machine-learning-jobs -- listed at AI:Mechanic
- http://www.reddit.com/r/MLjobs-- job-posting and discussion forum.

Any student or entrepreneur may install the JavaScript Ghost AI on websites or computers for clients hiring the installer as an AI Mind Maintainer. The True AI in JavaScript is a replica of MindForth for robots and the ghost.pl AI for webservers, but does not require downloading Forth or Perl. Business clients may have their own weblinks visible on the AI Control Panel and may have the maintainer code information about the business into the knowledge base (KB) of the AI.

10. Mind Modules of Sentient, Truly Thinking AI Minds

MainLoop

ghost

Natural Language Understanding

TabulaRasa -- wipe memory clean

MindBoot of English and Russian vocabulary
- KbLoad -- load the Knowledge Base

LangLearn -- habituate new syntax; learn a language

ReJuvenate -- recycle memory space

Sensorium -- sensory input with associative tagging to concepts
- AudInput -- auditory input
  - AudListen -- listen for input
  - AudMem -- English auditory memory
    - AudRecog -- auditory recognition
  - OldConcept -- recognize a known old concept
    - EnParser -- preposition? (in)direct object?
      - InStantiate -- create new instance of concept
    - RuParser -- expect first a noun, then a verb
      - InStantiate -- create new instance of concept
  - NewConcept -- create a new concept
    - EnParser -- preposition? (in)direct object?
      - InStantiate -- create instance of new concept
    - RuParser -- expect first a noun, then a verb
      - InStantiate -- create instance of new concept
- FileInput -- read files on a server
- GusRecog -- sense of taste
- OlfRecog -- sense of smell
- TacRecog -- sense of touch
- VisRecog -- sense of vision

Volition -- free will resulting from feeling and thinking
- Emotion as influence on thought and free will
- EnThink -- think in English
  - KbRetro -- retroactively adjust knowledge base
  - Imperative -- mood for issuing commands
  - Indicative -- mood for declarative statements
    - InFerence -- automated reasoning
    - AskUser -- validate an inference
    - EnNounPhrase -- think with a noun
      - EnPrep -- insert an English preposition
      - EnArticle -- use "a" or "the"
      - EnAdjective -- insert an adjective
      - EnPronoun -- substitute a pronoun for a noun
      - ConJoin -- insert a conjunction
    - EnVerbPhrase -- think with a verb
      - EnAuxVerb -- use auxiliary verb
      - EnAdverb modifies a verb
        EnAdverb modifies another adverb
      - EnVerbGen -- generates an English verb-form
        AudBuffer -- stores English phonemes
        
        OutBuffer -- right-justifies English verb-form
      - VisRecog -- visual recognition by feature extraction
      - SpreadAct -- spreads activation from concept to concept
  - Subjunctive -- mood for conditional phrases
  - ConJoin -- insert a conjunction if two thoughts are active
- RuThink -- think in Russian
  - RuImperative -- needs to be coded
  - RuIndicative -- mood for declarative Russian sentences
    - InFerence -- automated reasoning
    - AskUser -- validate an inference
    - RuNounPhrase -- think with a Russian noun
      - RuAdjective -- insert a Russian adjective
        RuAdjGen -- to generate a Russian adjective-form
        
        RuAdverb -- insert a Russian adverb
    - RuPrep -- insert a Russian preposition
    - RuPronoun -- substitute a Russian pronoun for a noun
  - ConJoin -- insert a conjunction
  - RuVerbPhrase -- think with a Russian verb
    - RuVerbGen -- generate a Russian verb-form
      - AudBuffer -- stores Russian phonemes
      - OutBuffer -- right-justifies Russian verb-form
    - Speech -- output to screen or loudspeaker
    - RuAdverb -- insert a Russian adverb
    - VisRecog -- visual recognition inserts a noun
    - RuNounPhrase -- direct-object noun
      - RuNounGen -- to generate a Russian noun-form
  - ConJoin -- insert a conjunction
  - PsiDecay lowers conceptual activation
- Motorium (MotorOutPut) -- for AI-Minded robots
- MetEmPsychosis -- AI soul travel from webserver to webserver
  - PortScan -- find a receptive open port for relocation of the Ghost AI

Spawn -- AI Go FOOM

MindMeld -- merge two AI Minds by sharing memories

Consciousness -- emergent property, not a module

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