Mike, On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 12:47 PM, Mike Tintner <[email protected]>wrote:
> I wonder whether the time-bound promises that AGI systembuilders have > made are starting to wear thin – and too many have failed. AGI has made > zero progress whatsoever in terms of its stated goals. > You have just touched on one of my BIG past points - that the AGI community desperately needed to state a long list of sub-goals and interim benchmarks on their way to ultimate success. All I got in return were responses amounting to "don't both me, because I'll have it running pretty soon". That time has now come and gone. Ben and others need to list their goals and benchmarks ASAP, or kiss AGI and their careers goodbye. > > As discussed before, “systems AGI” (building an AGI system) is an > extremely wild fantasy for now. My prediction is a more practical AGI – > robot sub-AGI’s capable of a general range of simple tasks without any > programming, will be the next, realistic focus. > This sounds like a good candidate for the above-mentioned list. My (misguided) vision when I first heard about OpenCog was as a platform for developing advanced AI components to drop into business and other systems, that further development would eventually morph into something MUCH more. Perhaps I missed something, but I never found that commercially usable platform. AGI needs a PATH, and NOT just an ultimate GOAL. People are now voting with their feet because there is still NOTHING of present value in AGI. Steve ------------------------------------------- AGI Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/21088071-c97d2393 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21088071&id_secret=21088071-2484a968 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
