On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 3:57 AM, Ben Goertzel <[email protected]> wrote:
> And we will probably see this happen within the next, say, 3-10 years.... > But it may happen (shortly) *after* some more modestly funded AGI project > (OpenCog or something else) demonstrates sufficiently exciting progress to > really drive home to the "powers that be" that this is an area whose time > has come... > Yes. For example, nobody funded Marie Curie or Robert Goddard with a billion dollars. Nobody funded Douglas Lenat until after he had produced AM and Eurisko off his own bat. At the same time, funding wrote off Lenat's life. He was the one man I call better than I am at what I do, but even after it became clear Cyc wouldn't work, once he had fifty people under him, walking into work one day and telling them to pack their bags and go home was something mortal man would never do, never could. If you want funding, you first have to produce results capable of impressing people who control the money. But be careful that you're willing to gamble the rest of your life on the thing you get funded for. ------------------------------------------- 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
