COBOL for AI Textbook Software

by A.T. Murray based on a





1. Overview and Brain-Mind Diagram for

Artificial Intelligence Programming in COBOL



/^^^^^^^^^\ ____________ /^^^^^^^^^\ / EYE \ CONCEPTS / Volition \ / EAR \ / \ | | | ( or Free Will ) / \ | _______ | | | | \____________/ | | | /old \ | | | | | | | | | / image \---|--|-+ | | ___V____ | | | \ recog / | | |I| | / \ | | | \_______/ | k| | | | ( Sentence )---|-------------\ | | | n| | | __V___ \________/ | | | | | o| | | / \ | | | | | | visual | w| | | (Motorium) | _V__ | auditory | | | | |C| | \______/ | /Verb\ | | | | memory | |O| | __V_ (Phrase) | memory | | | | |B| | /Noun\/\____/ | | | | channel | |O| | (Phrase) | | channel | | | | |L| | \____/ | | | | | _______ | | | | | __V__ | _______ | | | /fresh \ | |_|_| ______V_ / En \ | / "I" \ | | | / percept \ | / \ (English ) / Verbs \-|--/ "know" \| | | \ engram /---|-\ Psi /---\Nouns / \_______/ | \ "COBOL" / | | \_______/ | \___/ \____/-------------|---\_______/ |

The above diagram shows how an AI Mind programmed in the Common

Business-Oriented Language COBOL might think to itself the idea,

"I know COBOL."



COBOL is not going to go away. Human beings may go away, but

COBOL is here to stay. The ability to program in COBOL and to

maintain the enormous COBOL code base is a skill so valuable and

so worthy of financial remuneration that the joint human-cyborg

civilization does not dare run out of programmers who know COBOL.

Accordingly, the stewards of Earth must divert some scarce COBOL

human resources into creating cadres of cyborg resources capable

of taking over the mission-critical tasks of COBOL from humans.

This Web page, in conjunction with the AI4U secret code book of

how to code COBOL AI Minds, is the means of enabling the transfer

of COBOLometry from less-than-reliable humans to supercomputer AI.







2. The Seed AI Agenda



Agents of COBOL, sharpen your pencils and tidy up your cubicles.

The survival of global civilization expects every COBOL cabalist

to do derring-do duty. Junior members of the staff shall please

defer to the wisdom and experience of those who know the AI stuff.



We are building a Cybernetic Economy, an AI prosperity engine on

a scale undreamed of by Adam Smith in The Wealth of Nations and

unplanned for by John Maynard Keynes in Days of Deficit Spending.



Since so much of the economic backbone of the Earth is COBOL code,

we dare not let an AI-in-Lisp or an AI-in-Forth try to deal with

the vitally important COBOL legacy predominance. Native COBOL AI

Minds are needed to save the world and build a cybernetic cycdom.

Nothing flashy, nothing swashbuckling or Friday-casual need apply.

Bean-counters keep food on the table even for lamer dissers and

disaffected ditto-heads, so deny not the COBOL of code-complete.



Circulate the COBOL AI Minds in safety among the worldwide COBOL

conspiracy to keep things running and to achieve unsung heroicism.

Suffer the children to hear the taunts of having a COBOL coder da-

da or momma, knowing full well that if-not-COBOL, then no Geritol

and no other products to buy in the marketplace. COBOL is kewl.







3. Modules to be implemented in a COBOL AI Mind



Since the Mentifex Mind-1.1 already works in a primitive way,

there is no need to reinvent the wheel, and any programmer may

simply port or improve the pre-existing AI Mind source code:

index.html View/ Source/ Artificial Mind in JavaScript

mind4th.html Mind.Forth free AI source code for robots





4. Resources for COBOL AI Minds



43 Things: Build a Thinking Machine

http://www.43things.com/things/view/245747/build-a-thinking-machine

Open Directory Project: Computers: Programming: Languages: Cobol

http://dmoz.org/Computers/Programming/Languages/Cobol/

Parsons, Earl H., Jr.:

Structured Programming with COBOL Examples

http://www.iuniverse.com/bookstore/book_detail.asp?isbn=0595250947

Power Programming Point:

Cobol and Artificial Intelligence: Can we make a match?

http://powerprogrammingpoint.blogspot.com/2007/12/cobol-and-artificial-intelligence-can.html

Russo, Frank J. -- Franks AI-Mind

AIMind-I.com

Earlier, original website of Franks AI Mind

http://home.earthlink.net/~fjrussonc/AIMind/AI-Mind.html Forth for Modular AI -- discussion forum

http://modularai.messageforums.net/forth-for-modular-ai_t29.html http://groups.yahoo.com/group/win32forth/messages

A virtual bug report that prompts correction of the audRecog module

http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/win32forth/message/11385 Getting the AI Mind in Forth to communicate across the Internet.

http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/win32forth/message/11844 Announcement of http://AIMind-I.com website for Franks AI Mind.

http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/win32forth/message/12263



Slashdot News for nerds. Stuff that matters

http://slashdot.org/search.pl?query=AI4U

http://slashdot.org/search.pl?query=COBOL

Standards in Artificial Intelligence

http://www.blogcharm.com/AI/26454/Standards.html

AI Interface Standards Committee

http://sourceforge.net/projects/ai-standards/

http://www.igda.org/Committees/ai.htm





