X-Prize tends to be driven by corporate donors who fund prizes, so if you/we could convince someone to fund a prize purse for " a series of AI competitions based on resource constraint classes." then X-Prize Foundation would likely strongly consider it... I do know the X-Prize folks fairly well ...
If we coupled " a series of AI competitions based on resource constraint classes." with AI explainability somehow it would be buzzy and maybe make it easier to get sponsorship... But corporate sponsors won't like abstraction so much, we'd need a wizzy idea for specifically what the competition should focus on... ben On Thu, Jul 2, 2020 at 12:02 PM James Bowery <jabow...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Thu, Jul 2, 2020 at 1:23 PM Ben Goertzel <b...@goertzel.org> wrote: >> > Can we agree that, regardless of the frontier search heuristics, it would >> > benefit AI, both general and narrow, to wave about the garlic of "Resource >> > Constraint" providing "competition classes" _within_ which metrics (of >> > whatever justification) are fairly compared? >> >> >> Yeah, while I feel it's valuable to have folks pushing on "what >> capabilities can we achieve with all the resources we can muster", I >> also agree w/ you that it's valuable to have resources and attention >> focused on "what capabilities can be achieved with so-and-such variety >> of limited resources" >> >> I'm not sure what practical steps you are suggesting for whom to take tho? > > > Excellent question and indeed similar to one I addressed when approaching > various private sector fusion energy initiatives leading to circa 1992 > legislative language to privatize the fusion program in a series of ~10 > objective milestones each awarded a $100M prize, and in approaching various > amateur rocketry groups to establish a small prize for achieving 100km > altitude that led to a much larger $250k prize for the same criterion, > thence, one could easily imagine, the Ansai's stepping up to the plat for the > X-Prize Foundation for a manned version. > > Which brings to mind Singularity University's executive founder Peter > Diamandis... > > It seems to me Kaggle is hopelessly mired in unprincipled approaches to > machine learning competitions, but there may be hope for the X-Prize > Foundation to establish a more principled approach to a series of AI > competitions based on resource constraint classes. > > > Artificial General Intelligence List / AGI / see discussions + participants + > delivery options Permalink -- Ben Goertzel, PhD http://goertzel.org “The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars.” -- Jack Kerouac ------------------------------------------ Artificial General Intelligence List: AGI Permalink: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/T100f708e32ae7327-M5cb78c79db3471e06b1e57ed Delivery options: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription
