This quote from the interview nicely summarizes why academia sucks as a venue for making AGI progress...
*** Since our goal is to actually identify mechanisms that are powerful enough to achieve human-level intelligence, the best way we have of proving that our theory is correct is to actually implement it and show it actually understands language at a human level. It’s actually surprisingly difficult to get research like this published and supported within normal academic communities because they are more interested with smaller, incremental results that can be precisely quantified. It is very difficult to get academic papers about complex systems published in the quantities you need to thrive in academia. ... one of the problems with academia today is that one’s career progress is disproportionately linked to bringing in money (almost always government money). When one asks oneself how to best ensure getting a grant, the answer is invariably, “Keep doing more of whatever got money before.” *** On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 10:08 AM, Ben Goertzel <[email protected]> wrote: > http://www.forbes.com/sites/markchangizi/2012/11/09/for-siris-new-competitor-skyphrase-academia-isnt-big-enough-for-ai/ > > -- > Ben Goertzel, PhD > http://goertzel.org > > "My humanity is a constant self-overcoming" -- Friedrich Nietzsche -- Ben Goertzel, PhD http://goertzel.org "My humanity is a constant self-overcoming" -- Friedrich Nietzsche ------------------------------------------- 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
