Are you serious, Alan? {Thanks j.c.] This is yet another blocks world
project - where the blocks are figures.
But I like the "A.D.S." concept - "Actually Does Something". *Is* there
any A.D.S. AGI project? Implicit in ADS should be "...Something
[General/Creative]"
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From: just camel
Sent: Friday, November 30, 2012 2:31 PM
To: AGI
Subject: Re: [agi] SINGULARITY ALERT: Spaun
Interesting - apparently he is also about to publish a book titled "How
to build a brain" ... just when i finished Ben's "The Hidden Pattern"
and "How to create a Mind"
http://nengo.ca/build-a-brain
On 12/02/2012 04:15 PM, Alan Grimes wrote:
'ello.
I'm going to have to issue a singularity alert for a package called Spaun.
It is a very user friendly neural network application developed by :
http://arts.uwaterloo.ca/~celiasmi/ (click link called "Nengo")
At first glance, he's just another GOERTZEL, but in fact, he seems to be
able to think clearly and has software that Actually Does Something(tm).
Just what that is isn't clear yet. The demo videos on his website are
breathtaking but they don't mean anything. I tried running the full Spaun
brain model on my $2,000 home computer but immediately ran out of memory.
(I chose 8-gb of extremely low latency memory over 16 gb of slower
memory.)
I would like someone with a machine with 24-32gb (or more RAM) and a
working Nvidia CUDA installation to try out the package and see if it does
what is claimed and what it's limitations are.
My impression is that there is a better than 10% chance that this could be
an operational seed AI... If humanity survives the singularity, I would
propose a 20 foot tall solid gold statue of this Eliasmith character be
erected in every human settlement throughout the galaxy... He's probably
the most generous sentient being ever to have lived.
Seriously, though, if this package is shown to be meritorious, then we
are, right now, living in the final few weeks before some kind of takeoff
scenario (not clear what kind yet). Therefore if you have money and you
give a shit about this stuff, throw a lab together so you might stand a
chance to ride this rocket.
I want a NAO and a GPU supercomputer. If I sell all my gold, I should be
able to get the NAO but I can't afford the GPUs.
Just coming onto the market now is the Nvidia Tesla K20X co-processor
board which could enable as much as 16 teraflops of single-precision
compute in a single node (assuming you could find a way to supply enough
electricity for the thing).
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