Hey, so HSPL/GI-OS is an AGI project where increments are readily testable, in fact each new increment has a new test for it's functionality, as new features are added.
The roadmap leads all the way to intelligent AGI societies, space travel and all that. Obviously that is going to be a long way off and in the next few years are still going to be working on the programming language. Though even within the programming language roadmap we have the capacity of fault-tolerance will be added, through the use of "OR" sentences, allowing for multiple routes to solving a problem, it can then take advantage of parallel processors by attempting several solution styles at once, and using one or more of their results to get a best solution. Meanwhile it's a road of integrating all the various innovation that have happened in computers from bottom up in a human speakable format. Likely we'll support low-level cognitive processes long before we support the high-level ones, similar to how brains evolved over time, starting with he lowest levels and working up. Some studies have showed that without the emotional brain the logical brain is rather useless, since it's the emotional brain that makes the decision, whereas the higher brain simply looks at the options. Anyways so my point being that it is possible to have incremental testing metrics for an AGI project. In terms of funding my idea is to make an amendment forum feature-request system with support for "bidding donations" in terms that people can donate to the project and use the credits to bid on a feature request, then the developer that implements the features request or bug-fix gets large percentage of the money. I might develop it in parallel (PHP/SQL) in order to support the development of HSPL/GI-OS though it can also be used for other open source, community and charitable projects. On Mon, Dec 24, 2012 at 11:39 PM, Ben Goertzel <[email protected]> wrote: > > Steve, > > I am adjusting your statement to add what I think is missing: >> >>> >>> "any prospective AGI platform absolutely **MUST** be capable of *rapidly >>> learning to* perform*ing* substantially all of the high-level cognitive >>> information processing functions that have been observed in human >>> mind/brains *without carefully ignoring areas (like the hypothalamus) >>> that perform functions that appear incompatible with the platform.*" >>> >> >> > The hypothalamus is not a function, but rather a system. So to accord > with my statement you would need to enumerate which of the human mind's > high-level cognitive functions you think OpenCog (or other AGi designs) > ignores due to not adequately including sufficiently "hypothalamus-like" > components or processes... > > Also, I don't agree at all that an AGi must be capable fo rapidly learning > to perform all its high-level functions. A human mind learns to cognize > over a period of years, and does so via a complex combination of learning > with the scheduled/triggered unveiling of genetically encoded > capabilities.... Similarly I think it's OK if an AGi learns its cognitive > capabilities over a period of years, and if it leverages some appropriately > in-built capabilities. A human mind is not a tabula rasa, and nor need an > AGI mind be... > > -- Ben G > *AGI* | Archives <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now> > <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/5037279-a88c7a6d> | > Modify<https://www.listbox.com/member/?&;>Your Subscription > <http://www.listbox.com> > ------------------------------------------- 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
