Re: [agi] What would motivate you to put work into an AGI project?

2007-05-07 Thread Jean-Paul Van Belle
Interesting question you raise there, Matt (vs :) YKY How many of us would be prepared to work FULL-TIME on AGI: (0) If a department of defense/military organisation paid you develop a secret AGI for national defense/intelligence purpose? (1) If a Microsoft, Google, Sun or IBM came along and

Re: [agi] The Advantages of a Conscious Mind

2007-05-07 Thread Pei Wang
On 5/6/07, Mike Tintner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Pei, I assumed your system is determinisitc from your posts, not your papers. So I'm still really, genuinely confused by your position. You didn't actually answer my question (unless I've missed something in all these posts) re how your system

Re: [agi] The Advantages of a Conscious Mind

2007-05-07 Thread Derek Zahn
J. Storrs Hall, PhD. writes: NVIDIA claims half a teraflop for the 8800 gtx. You need an embarassingly parallel problem, tho. That claim is slightly bogus (I think they are figuring in some graphics-specific feature which would rarely if ever be used by general purpose algorithms [texture

Time Enough For Work [WAS Re: [agi] What would motivate you to put work into an AGI project?]

2007-05-07 Thread Richard Loosemore
Myself, I think that the number of hours working alone might only need to be a small number (3-4). But what I value most is hours brainstorming with others who are of like mind and similar level of knowledge. That is a gold-dust situation. I have been watching From The Earth To The Moon

RE: Time Enough For Work [WAS Re: [agi] What would motivate you to put work into an AGI project?]

2007-05-07 Thread John G. Rose
I've found that if I can do 16 to 24 hours on, and then sleep, and then another 16 to 24 hours on as long as the body can keep up I can reach really high thresholds of productivity with ephemeral visions of deep, comprehensive insight. In the past I've done self-directed data compression RD,

Re: Time Enough For Work [WAS Re: [agi] What would motivate you to put work into an AGI project?]

2007-05-07 Thread Benjamin Goertzel
Re (3) I have often wondered how much time one could really spend continuously on working on AGI - refer to the Princeton Instititue of Advanced Studies where established geniuses (such as Einstein) were/are paid to devote fulltime efforts to thinking but actually not many earthshaking

[agi] RE: Time Enough For Work

2007-05-07 Thread Mark Waser
Hi John, Could you tell us more about WKG - Web Knowledge Gatherer? - Original Message - From: John G. Rose [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: agi@v2.listbox.com Sent: Monday, May 07, 2007 2:02 PM Subject: **SPAM** RE: Time Enough For Work [WAS Re: [agi] What would motivate you to put work

RE: [agi] RE: Time Enough For Work

2007-05-07 Thread John G. Rose
WKG is an application that takes spidering a few other common technologies and ties them together. Nothing really revolutionary... this is the 3rd prototype since 2000. The first was written in Visual Basic 6, the second in Delphi in 2002, and this version is a combo of C# and C++. This

Re: [agi] What would motivate you to put work into an AGI project?

2007-05-07 Thread YKY (Yan King Yin)
On 5/7/07, James Ratcliff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One goal or project I was considering (for profit) is a research tool, basically a KB that scans in teh newspapers and articles and extracts pertinent information for others to query against and use. This would help build up a large world

Re: Time Enough For Work [WAS Re: [agi] What would motivate you to put work into an AGI project?]

2007-05-07 Thread YKY (Yan King Yin)
Ben is about the most productive and energetic AGI person I've seen =) Personally I think I'm better at theorizing than software development, and my work/sleep hours are so irregular that I can't keep account of them, except to say that I'm devoted to AGI full-time. BTW.. I think churning code