I''ve recently been reading into Linux and open source and so on and I got to thinking... Wouldn''t it be cool if you took the linux core and rewrote it from an AI perspective. Using different AI techniques you could create an Operating System that was intelligent. With current Linux Clustering you could then get it to talk, communicate, and work with other Linux Computers. I just thought it was interesting and was wondering if anyone has considered an OS based AI or if there are any in the making. Cheers. www.abyssgames.gotdns.com

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I think that is an awesome idea, and would love to work on such a project if I had the know-how (which I don''t )

Isn''t the Microsoft "Clippy" a from of AI, such as when he tries to tell you you''re writing a letter, or something else?

Yes, I spose he is at a basic level. I was thinking some more and it would really be useful for servers. If the server that hosts my website was able to recover and learn from errors or virus attacks.... automatic upgrading would be less time with software that could potentially have a hole in it. With clustering if one computer is hit hard, the others disconnect, grab the files, and serve the website on their own if it''s a particulary large attack. Just me rambling I guess. Wish I had the knowledge to work on something like this.

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Don''t pass such AI to Microsoft!
They would screw it up totaly!

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Well, the inclusion of Palladin in Windows is a big step towards not only an artificially intelligent OS, but also AI-coded hardware. A BigBrother-AI, that is:

http://www.markfiore.com/animation/tia2.html



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Actaully, there are a lot of AI algorithms inside most of OSs. There are a lot of tasks that need planning and search: For instance, How do you think that BIG systems plan disk access? they have dozens of processes accessing a disk at the same time, and you need to serve them as fast as possible. This is the typical scheduling AI problem.

What you have proposed is called the "5th computer generation" (we are supposed to be in the 4th right now). Japan invested lots of money in an OS based on Prolog queries. It was supposed that you could talk to your computer... however, when the graphical interfaces started to appear, all the money they invested went to the trash... Nobody is talking about this 5th generation any more... You can read about it if you search in the interet for the "5th generation of computers". (1st generation were mechanical devices, 2nd were electronic devices, 3rd were transistors, 4th were microchips, 5th was supposed to be AI-based-computers)

The main reason for OSs not working using AI algorithms is that an OS has to be efficient. and AI algorithms aren''t. They are flexible, but can never compete against an specialized algorithm for solving a task.

When you mentioned intelligent OS''s I first thought you meant something kind of different.

Imagine a network of computers trying to fight each other off given certain rules. Read about something I think was called core wars some time ago, which was basicly two processes operating on one machine trying to eliminate each other by corrupting the main memory.
Something similar but with AI and in a network would surely make a fun nerd-game..

ok a little off-topic, sorry

> Actaully, there are a lot of AI algorithms inside most of OSs.
> There are a lot of tasks that need planning and search:
> For instance, How do you think that BIG systems plan disk access?

And you call that intelligent? That''s just algorithmy, this has nothing to do with intelligence.

He,he...

To justify your answer, you should first answer to 2 questions:
- Find a single thing that can be executed by a machine and that is NOT algorithmic.
- Why intelligence cannot be algorithmic. i.e. define intelligence.