Re: [agi] Open-Source AGI

2007-05-11 Thread Mike Tintner
: A. T. Murray [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: agi@v2.listbox.com Sent: Friday, May 11, 2007 4:55 AM Subject: Re: [agi] Open-Source AGI Mike Tintner wrote: The greatest challenge - and these are my first, very stumbling thoughts here - is to find ways that people can work together on the overall problem

Re: [agi] Open-Source AGI

2007-05-11 Thread Bob Mottram
The open source idea sounds great and in general I agree with this approach. One of the main benefits in my view is ensuring that powerful new technology does not fall into the hands of any single individual, company or nation who could then monopolise its use, potentially with unfriendly

Re: [agi] Open-Source AGI...P.S.

2007-05-11 Thread Mike Tintner
I should add that part of the creative challenge of developing an integrational structure for AGI is to develop one that will allow CREATIVE minds to work together - and not just hacks a la Wikip. - and enable them to integrate whole sets of major new inventions and innovations. And that too,

Re: [agi] Open-Source AGI...P.S.

2007-05-11 Thread Benjamin Goertzel
On 5/11/07, Mike Tintner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I should add that part of the creative challenge of developing an integrational structure for AGI is to develop one that will allow CREATIVE minds to work together - and not just hacks a la Wikip. - and enable them to integrate whole sets of

Re: [agi] Open-Source AGI

2007-05-11 Thread J Storrs Hall, PhD
On Friday 11 May 2007 05:16:44 am Bob Mottram wrote: ... But in practice it's difficult to do AI in an open source way, because I've found that at least up until the present there have been very few people who actually know anything about the algorithms involved and can make a useful

Re: [agi] Open-Source AGI

2007-05-11 Thread A. T. Murray
Mike Tintner wrote: Thanks! [...] So, ATM, is anyone following up on your ideas and sourceforge framework? http://AIMind-I.com is where Mr. Frank J. Russo (FJR) has created its own website for his version of my http://mind.sourceforge.net/mind4th.html AI in Forth. On another note, Ben

[agi] Open-Source AGI

2007-05-10 Thread Mike Tintner
Just been looking at the vids. of last year's AGI conference. One thing really hit me from the panel talk - and that was: but, of course, only open-source AGI will ever work. Sorry, but all these ideas of individual systems, produced by teams of - what? - say, twenty individuals at most -

Re: [agi] Open-Source AGI

2007-05-10 Thread Benjamin Goertzel
Ben, I imagine, more or less knows the open-source truth in talking about an AGI Manhattan Project. But even that would be too small. The whole world - the whole Internet - will have to be involved.. I don't really agree with this. A Manhattan project would be awesome and would maximize

Re: [agi] Open-Source AGI

2007-05-10 Thread Russell Wallace
On 5/11/07, Mike Tintner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The greatest challenge - and these are my first, very stumbling thoughts here - is to find ways that people can work together on the overall roblem - that all these systems (or subsystems) that people are working on can connect and evolve

Re: [agi] Open-Source AGI

2007-05-10 Thread Samantha  Atkins
On May 10, 2007, at 6:29 PM, Benjamin Goertzel wrote: Ben, I imagine, more or less knows the open-source truth in talking about an AGI Manhattan Project. But even that would be too small. The whole world - the whole Internet - will have to be involved.. I don't really agree with this.

Re: [agi] Open-Source AGI

2007-05-10 Thread Russell Wallace
On 5/11/07, Samantha Atkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I tend to agree. Many hands and eyeballs are great for a project of many relatively isolatable components whose requirements and interaction are relatively understood. But AGI is pushing the envelope tremendously and, to the degree I

Re: [agi] Open-Source AGI

2007-05-10 Thread Samantha  Atkins
On May 10, 2007, at 6:49 PM, Russell Wallace wrote: Well there are two phases, framework and content. The framework is as you say: it needs to be a cathedral. The content needs to be of volume such that only a whole industry can create it: definitely a bazaar. The hard part then is

Re: [agi] Open-Source AGI

2007-05-10 Thread Russell Wallace
On 5/11/07, Samantha Atkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think (could be wrong) that part of the goal of the core team is to create a mind that can largely navigate huge amounts of data for itself, something that has the basis to learn autonomously on the Web. It may take a phase of a lot of

Re: [agi] Open-Source AGI

2007-05-10 Thread YKY (Yan King Yin)
Open source vs closed source is one of the most difficult decisions I faced in my entire AGI career. I've always championed open source AND for-profit, which is the middleground of open-free and closed-commercial, though it may seem like a contradiction. Sometimes I think it may work in a

Re: [agi] Open-Source AGI

2007-05-10 Thread Russell Wallace
Mind you, the free/commercial and closed/open-source decisions are separate ones. They're strategic decisions; there's nothing about the problem that intrinsically requires either, it's a matter of coming up with a strategy that can let the participants pay the rent while they work on the

Re: [agi] Open-Source AGI

2007-05-10 Thread A. T. Murray
Mike Tintner wrote: The greatest challenge - and these are my first, very stumbling thoughts here - is to find ways that people can work together on the overall problem - that all these systems (or subsystems) that people are working on can connect and evolve together.