Elevator Pitch
What if you could collect thousands of A.I. tools and apply them towards planning your life? That’s exactly what FRDCSA has been working on for the last 20 years. Only now, you can download a VM containing the core systems.
Description
In today’s increasingly complex world, sometimes we can be blindsided by rules we didn’t know existed. If you’re living on the edge, this can be disastrous. What if all the rules that applied to us, from legal to financial to just basic common sense, were collected into a system that was capable of reasoning with them and planning with them? You could put your objectives into the system and it would factor in all these things, and spit out a plan. Well that is just one of many things the Free Life Planner A.I. seeks to do.
A.I. is problem-solving, and software that can do this has to grow larger as problems and their complexity multiply. Over the last 20 years the FRDCSA project has collected thousands of codebases and written over 2400 Perl 5 modules gluing everything together and making it available from within Perl. The Catalyst-based Free Life Planner (FLP) takes this and applies it directly towards assisting users in their minute-to-minute, day-to-day, year-to-year lives. Panoply, the VM distribution of the FRDCSA and FLP, will be distributed via Torrent, Blu-ray and DVD for users to explore. Think of a massive collection like Vger had in “Star Trek: The Motion Picture” of things like strong game-playing systems like “AlphaZero,” but tailored to the specific problems people most often encounter with finances, meal planning, transportation, health care, etc. Anyone interested in a personal A.I. assistant would benefit from hearing this talk.
Notes
The technical requirements are simply a projector with HDMI in and maybe networking and speakers. There are no prerequisites for the audience to understand, but knowing Emacs would help. I’m the best person to speak on this because I’m the creator of the system. This talk will benefit people who have an interest in AI, or in just having their lives go more smoothly. Hopefully they will become interested in the project and we can work together to meet people’s needs. People who want to use the Panoply VM distribution will need to either have a DVD or Blu-Ray drive or be able to download a 6.5 GB VM Torrent. They will need to have 18 GB free disk space as well as Vagrant and/or VirtualBox or equivalent installed.