I was in a rush last night, shminux, so I didn’t have time for a couple of other quick clarifications:
First, you say “One relevant paper was in H+ magazine, a place I have never heard of before and apparently not a part of any well-known scientific publishing outlet, like Springer.”
Well, H+ magazine is one of the foremost online magazines (perhaps THE foremost online magazine) of the transhumanist community.
And, you mention Springer. You did not notice that one of my papers was in the recently published Springer book “Singularity Hypotheses”.
Second, you say “A few [of my papers] are apparently about dyslexia, which is an interesting topic, but not obviously related to AI.”
Actually they were about dysgraphia, not dyslexia … but more importantly, those papers were about computational models of language processing. In particular they were very, VERY simple versions of the computational model of human language that is one of my special areas of expertise. And since that model is primarily about learning mechanisms (the language domain is only a testbed for a research programme whose main focus is learning), those papers you saw were actually indicative that back in the early 1990s I was already working on the construction of the core aspects of an AI system.
So, saying “dyslexia” gives a very misleading impression of what that was all about. :-)
I was in a rush last night, shminux, so I didn’t have time for a couple of other quick clarifications:
First, you say “One relevant paper was in H+ magazine, a place I have never heard of before and apparently not a part of any well-known scientific publishing outlet, like Springer.”
Well, H+ magazine is one of the foremost online magazines (perhaps THE foremost online magazine) of the transhumanist community.
And, you mention Springer. You did not notice that one of my papers was in the recently published Springer book “Singularity Hypotheses”.
Second, you say “A few [of my papers] are apparently about dyslexia, which is an interesting topic, but not obviously related to AI.”
Actually they were about dysgraphia, not dyslexia … but more importantly, those papers were about computational models of language processing. In particular they were very, VERY simple versions of the computational model of human language that is one of my special areas of expertise. And since that model is primarily about learning mechanisms (the language domain is only a testbed for a research programme whose main focus is learning), those papers you saw were actually indicative that back in the early 1990s I was already working on the construction of the core aspects of an AI system.
So, saying “dyslexia” gives a very misleading impression of what that was all about. :-)