In some ways, the crisis may accelerate the Singularity. For instance, a scientific paper by the Association for Computing Machinery on MindForth Robot AI has suddenly been made free to obtain because of the crisis, which in turn has caused at least one programmer to try to write a new port of MindForth beyond the other ports into JavaScript and Perl and to human languages like Latin and Russian.
In April of 2020, the U.S. Treasury in effect donated a "stimulus check" of $1,200.00 to the AI project which may need to buy a computer for creating a Mind.py version of the AI software with Natural Language Understanding. People sheltering in place suddenly have more time to study the extremely difficult concepts implemented in the Standard Model of AGI. http://old.reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/gbs3df/how_has_covid19_changed_your_thoughts_on_the/fp9fdy2 ------------------------------------------ Artificial General Intelligence List: AGI Permalink: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/Tff2d2d0c95fbde43-M6edef4ed9e92d5516a60adf4 Delivery options: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription
