Massively Multi-Author Hybrid Artificial Intelligence

There is an emerging consensus in much of AI and cognitive science that “intelligence” is most likely the product of thousands of highly specialised subsystems collaborating in some kind of ‘Network of Mind’. In 2001, Mark Humphrys proposed that if Artificial Intelligence (AI) is to “scale up”, it will require a collaborative effort involving researchers from diverse disciplines, across multiple laboratories (http://computing.dcu.ie/~humphrys/WWM/). Until now there has never been an easy system to facilitate the construction of hybrid AI from the work of multiple laboratories. The World-Wide-Mind is the latest in a series of prototype systems, which enables the construction of hybrid AI systems from multiple laboratories. The World-Wide-Mind server (http://w2mind.computing.dcu.ie) allows developers to pose software problems, (whether related to AI or not), for others to pose solutions to. Problems, such as a game of chess, or maze to be solved, are known as “worlds”. Solutions to these problems are known as “minds”. Both worlds and minds can be developed offline and uploaded to the World-Wide-Mind server. As facilitated by many video hosting websites, such as Youtube, authors can upload their work and be assured that it will be hosted indefinitely.