Relating to dates and AGI working: Probably most of us have seen
Casablanca. One of my favorite lines is when a girl asked Bogart "will I
see you tonight?"

Bogart: "I don't plan that far ahead."

On Sat, Feb 27, 2021, 12:44 PM Ben Goertzel <[email protected]> wrote:

> **
>  OpenCog never did have a knowledge base or any useful applications or
> experimental results since the 2011 timeline forecast human level AGI
> in 8-10 years.
> **
>
> My colleagues and I have used OpenCog w./in a bunch of useful
> applications but I don't have time to go through the list here
>
> It's true there have been no super big commercial successes or widely
> rolled out products
>
> >
> > Without an accounting of past failures, I don't have any great faith
> that the new design will work any better than the old one.
>
> Everyone working on AGI has failed so far... everything fails until it
> succeeds...
>
> >  Ben seems to come up with a new design every few months.
>
> Honestly this is the first re-architecture / major rethinking of
> OpenCog since 2008
>
> I had Webmind in 1997, Novamente in 2001, OpenCog in 2008 , and now
> Hyperon in 2020/2021 ... those are the major revisions of my approach
> to AGI so far....  Of course the process of R&D naturally involves a
> stream of new ideas w/in one's current main approach...
>
> > But I have to admire his persistence on a problem that is only being
> solved with decades of global effort.
> 
> The global effort of course is inclusive of efforts like those by
> OpenCog, Deep Mind etc. that contribute potentially key components to
> the overall emerging global general intelligence..

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