Author Topic: Info on Pete Peterson, FORTH, and the real SKYNET project (Read 4055 times)

petrus4 · « **on:** July 20, 2012, 12:00:46 PM »

I don't know how many of you are aware of it, but in 2009, Project Camelot managed to interview Dr Pete Peterson.

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Dr Peterson has apparently worked on a number of classified projects in his time, but the one that particularly caught my ear, was when he mentioned a SKYNET-like artificial intelligence project, that he was apparently working on in the last 1970s. The project made use of a specialised artificial intelligence programming language, called FORTH. FORTH is a stack based language, which communicates with machines on a level very close to their own. It is therefore comparitively very difficult for humans to learn, because of how different it is from our own native way of thinking.

As I may have mentioned to people here in my introductory message, robotics (or more specifically, machine automation, primarily from a software rather than physical hardware perspective) is one of my own passions, so I was very interested in what Dr. Peterson had to say.

As another, related link, I will also offer people here, an archive of speculative fiction which I came across several years ago, which the author refers to as, "an extrapolation or continuation of James Cameron's Terminator universe." The site mainly focuses on SKYNET, its' architecture, its' nature and personality, and more in depth information about the machines that were used during the fictional War.

Terminator: 2029 AD.

Amaterasu · « **Reply #1 on:** July 20, 2012, 10:53:52 PM »

Interesting... I had the opportunity to learn FORTH years ago - was never very good at it - I suck at programming - but found it to be the most elegant language I have encountered. In fact, just the other day, I was wondering why it didn't take off. MUCH faster than the high level languages, a little slower than Assembly... It sits between the two.

I thought it was much easier to learn than other languages because it starts with a base set of functions, and from those, One defines other functions which then One can use in combo to define further functions. And so on and so...er...forth.

I guess it DID take off - but not in the public sector...

I wish I could see the vid. At some point I will have the ability to do so. Another vid I look forward to. Thanks, Petrus!

COSMO · « **Reply #2 on:** July 20, 2012, 11:11:13 PM »

Like in the movie, the skynet combat drones need bases to fly from.

Revealed: 64 Drone Bases on American Soil

http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/06/64-drone-bases-on-us-soil/

Amaterasu · « **Reply #3 on:** July 20, 2012, 11:58:25 PM »

Man, They do focus on So. Cal, eh?

stealthyaroura · « **Reply #4 on:** July 21, 2012, 10:54:36 AM »

that guy was some mega inventor or so he claimed if i recall the interview i saw by Camelot
he has some property up in the mountains too for when the SHTF situation that he believes
is coming soon (2012?)

I dont know what to make of him though? my gut tells me there is something fishy about him