Ben, -The oft-mentioned stock-market prediction; -data mining, especially for corporate data such as customer behavior, sales prediction, etc; -decision support systems; -personal assistants; -chatbots (think, an ipod that talks to you when you are lonely); -educational uses including human-like artificial teachers, but also including smart presentation-of-material software which decides what practice problem to ask you next, when to give tips, etc; -industrial design (engineering); ...
Good luck to him! --Abram On Sat, Aug 7, 2010 at 9:10 PM, Ben Goertzel <b...@goertzel.org> wrote: > Hi, > > A fellow AGI researcher sent me this request, so I figured I'd throw it > out to you guys.... > > **** > I'm putting together an AGI pitch for investors and thinking of low > hanging fruit applications to argue for. I'm intentionally not > involving any mechanics (robots, moving parts, etc.). I'm focusing on > voice (i.e. conversational agents) and perhaps vision-based systems. > Hellen Keller AGI, if you will :) > > Along those lines, I'd like any ideas you may have that would fall > under this description. I need to substantiate the case for such AGI > technology by making an argument for high-value apps. All ideas are > welcome. > **** > > All serious responses will be appreciated!! > > Also, I would be grateful if we > could keep this thread closely focused on direct answers to this > question, rather than > digressive discussions on Helen Keller, the nature of AGI, the definition > of AGI > versus narrow AI, the achievability or unachievability of AGI, etc. > etc. If you think > the question is bad or meaningless or unclear or whatever, that's > fine, but please > start a new thread with a different subject line to make your point. > > If the discussion is useful, my intention is to mine the answers into a > compact > list to convey to him > > Thanks! > Ben G > > > ------------------------------------------- > agi > Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now > RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/ > Modify Your Subscription: > https://www.listbox.com/member/?&; > Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com > -- Abram Demski http://lo-tho.blogspot.com/ http://groups.google.com/group/one-logic ------------------------------------------- agi Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/ Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=8660244&id_secret=8660244-6e7fb59c Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
