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Improving EnArticle mind-module in first working artificial intelligence

The JavaScript artificial intelligence (JSAI) is not reliably transferring the usx values from InStantiate() to the EnArticle() module for inserting an English article into a thought, so we must debug the first working artificial intelligence in troubleshooting mode. We quickly see that the EnNounPhrase() module is calling EnArticle() for direct objects but not for all nouns in general. We also notice that we need to have EnNounPhrase() transfer the usx value.

We encounter and fix some other problems where the nphrnum value is not being set, as required for EnArticle() to decide between using "a" or "the".

Although we get the usx value to be transferred to the us1 value, we need a way to test usx not against a simultaneous value of us1 but rather against a recent value of us1. One solution may be to delay the transfer of usx by first testing in the EnArticle() module for equality between usx and us1 before we actually pass the noun-concept value of usx to us1. In that way, we will be testing usx against old, i.e., recent, values of the us1- us7 variables and not against the current value, which would automatically be equal. Then after the test for equality, we pass the actual, current value of usx.

We now have a JavaScript AI that works even better than the ghost.pl AI in Perl -- until we update the Perl AI. The JSAI now uses "a" or "the" rather sensibly, except when it now says "YOU ARE A MAGIC", because the default article for a non-plural noun is the indefinite article "a". Btw (by the way), today at a Starbucks store in Seattle WA USA we bought a green Starbucks gift card that says "You'Re MagicAL", because it reminds us of a similar idea in the AI MindBoot() sequence.

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Upstream variables make EnArticle insert the definite article.

We attempt now to code the proper use of the definite English article "the" in a conversation where one party mentions a noun-item and the AI Mind needs to refer to the item as the one currently under discussion. We need to implement a rotation of the upstream variables from $us1 to $us7, so that any input noun will remain in the AI consciousness as something recently mentioned upstream in the conversation. We had better create a $usx variable for the InStantiate() module to transfer the concept number of an incoming noun to whichever $us1 to $us7 variable is up next in the rotation of up to seven recently mentioned noun-concepts.

We start testing the EnArticle() module to see if it is receiving a $usx transfer-variable from the InStantiate() module. At first it is not getting through. We change the conditions for calling EnArticle and a line of diagnostic code shows that $usx is getting through. Then we set up a conditional test for EnArticle() to say the word "the" if an incoming $usx matches the $us1 variable. We start seeing "THE" along with "A" in the output of our ghost.pl AI Mind, but there is not yet a rotation of the us1-us7 variables or a forgetting of any no-longer-recent concept.

We should create a rotating $usn number-variable to be a cyclic counter from one to seven and back to one again so that the upstream us1-us7 variables may rotate through their duty-function. We let $usn increment up to a value of seven over and over again. We pair up the $usn and us1-us7 variables to transfer the $usx value on a rotating basis. At first a problem arises when the ghost.pl AI says both "A" and "THE", but we insert a "return" statement so that EnArticle() will say only "A" and then skip the saying of "THE". We enter "you have a book" and a while later the AI outputs, "I HAVE THE BOOK."