One of my long-held ambitions is to invent general artificial intelligence in my spare bedroom.

I have not done this, and probably never will. For one thing, I no longer use my spare bedroom as a study.

Nevertheless, over the years I have played with ideas and code and restarted this blog a few times, without accomplishing much. And still I have the dream of one day holding a meaningful conversation with software of my own creation.

This will certainly never happen if I don’t put in some concerted effort, and since life is short (well, I hope not) I had better start now.

My plan is to start with the simplest possible ‘working models of brains’, to explore technologies and theories, and see where it takes me: not necessarily to anywhere useful, but in the hope it will at least be interesting.

This blog is intended as a record of what I play with, both to help me keep track and in case anyone else is interested (probably not).

If you are interested, you are welcome to follow, comment, and play along.