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A 7 page paper comparing software to a living system. Still in development by Sandia National Laboratories is MentorPal®, software that employs neural-network technology to automatically offer “individual real-time advice to soldiers and other government teams in the field.” MentorPal has many of the features of a living system, defined as a system with boundaries, metabolism, defining code, purpose, complexity and a defined size, that also is self-organizing and operates within a framework of conceptual meaning. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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promise of fuzzy logic years ago was that IT systems could "create" their own data from existing data residing within them. Opponents envisioned smart computers that potentially could become
malevolent in their operation, turning on their human creators with evil in their artificially-thinking electronic minds. The vision was much like that of "HAL," the computer with a mind
of its own in "2001: A Space Odyssey" released in 1968. At the other extreme were purists holding that a computer was merely a machine and nothing more, that
artificial intelligence was a topic best left alone. Today, some organizations have found that there is no need for artificial intelligence to gain
greater value from the information it already possesses. What is needed instead is a more efficient means of using that information. In many respects, this is the attitude
adopted by Sandia National Laboratories in its creation of MentorPal(r), software that employs neural-network technology to automatically offer "individual real-time advice to soldiers and other government teams in the field"
(Johnson, 2004; p. 51). The Software System MentorPal and its software has many of the features of a living system, defined as a
system with boundaries, metabolism, defining code, purpose, complexity and a defined size, that also is self-organizing and operates within a framework of conceptual meaning. The Sandia group seeks as
an end goal a software mentor "that could offer advice like take a deep breath and relax your upper body or pay attention to what Private Smith is about to
say, his excitement level indicates it could be important" (Johnson, 2004; p. 51). Not yet released from virtual reality stage, the Sandia groups
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