Path: utzoo!attcan!lsuc!ncrcan!hcr!edwin
From: edwin@hcr.UUCP (Edwin Hoogerbeets)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: AI with Ami.....
Summary: have your ami simulate your brain
Keywords: neural, AI, gratuitous spam
Message-ID: <5244@hcr.UUCP>
Date: 28 Feb 89 03:17:06 GMT
References: <9472@louie.udel.EDU>
Reply-To: edwin@hcrvax.UUCP (Edwin Hoogerbeets)
Organization: HCR Corporation, Toronto
Lines: 26

In article <9472@louie.udel.EDU> mmdf@udel.UUCP writes:
>I would like to hear about any interesting usage of the Amiga related
>to artificial intelligence, something which wouldbe hard for a normal
>pc to do.  

I always thought the Amiga would be great for simulating neural nets,
because of the multi-tasking OS. 

Each node would have its own process.  Each node could be connected to
others via [fast] links that are, in reality, messages between
MsgPort's. This makes it easy to simulate any kind of perverted
topology imaginable!  Shared memory is easy, because any address valid
for one process is valid for the other processes, and semaphores are
already implement in the OS.

The Amiga is a virtual playground for such programming. 
[pun intended, so there.]

Seriously, I think the Amiga is uniquely suited to this sort of
programming. Try that on a single-tasking Pissy^H^H^H^HC or Atari, 
[insert suitable rhyming first name here].

This is something I would have done by now, but I don't really know 
enough about neural nets.

Edwin