> I agree with you that our current pace of progress toward a really > smart OpenCog system is disappointingly slow. As noted before, my > hope/aim is that, once we have achieved a sufficient level of > functionality, demonstration of the system will suffice to bring in > dramatically more funding, which then will accelerate progress.
Specifically what I'm aiming for is interesting general-intelligence behavior in animated agents and (assuming a planned collaboration with Hanson Robotics goes well) humanoid robots... I understand you are pumped about quantitative benchmarking.... My own view is that the focus on precision and recall stats in machine learning has had both positive and negative aspects.... I don't yet see how to make useful, rigorous, quantitative incremental progress benchmarks for early-stage AGI... I note that the recent excitement about deep learning is based on qualitative results like http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/26/technology/in-a-big-network-of-computers-evidence-of-machine-learning.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0 rather than on quantitative benchmark results improvements... I think that if we succeed in creating an OpenCog agent that gives a suitable qualitative impression of general intelligence, based on a foundation that any expert who looks into the details can see is based on sophisticated learning, then this will be enough to motivate a burst of attention and $$ for OpenCog and for AGI in general... It's true that getting to the point of such a qualitatively exciting demonstration is taking longer than I've hoped.... But ultimately, whether my task duration estimations are off by a small integer multiple or not is not the main point. The main point is whether the core AGI design can work or not... --- Ben G ------------------------------------------- AGI Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/21088071-f452e424 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21088071&id_secret=21088071-58d57657 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
