RE: [agi] Opensource Business Model

2007-05-29 Thread John G. Rose
From: YKY (Yan King Yin) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Maybe if the project is modular people will more likely work within the project as they don't want to duplicate all the other modules. Modular in terms of having a framework where modules can be switched out and replaced. That way if

Re: [agi] Bad Friendly AI poetry ;-)

2007-05-29 Thread Chris Petersen
From Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri, the Civ-like game: * A handsome young Cyborg named Ace Wooed women at every base, But once ladies glanced at His special enhancement They vanished with nary a trace. -- Barracks graffiti, Sparta Command * - This list is sponsored by

Re: [agi] Bad Friendly AI poetry ;-)

2007-05-29 Thread Jiri Jelinek
*** I want it now! *** Friendly AGI? many worry, but I would start with input story: NL support - what a pain, human-senses - how insane.. But, there's a shortcut one can grab, Form-based I/O does the job. You can get it NL-close, still fun for users - the way I chose. Many keep trying the NL

Re: [agi] Emotions and Morality

2007-05-29 Thread Mark Waser
Morality *can* be a learned behavior; however, activation of that particular part of the brain is *not* a learnable behavior (for obvious reasons -- see Michael Crichton's The Terminal Man) -- thus, the activation *is* hard-wired by evolution (and is noteworthy as such because it furthers