'ello, this is cross posted because I am not in the mood to write two
slightly different articles.
In order to eliminate any confusion, here is my near-term top level goal:
-> Develop a machine super-intelligence.
And, for the sake of completeness, my long-term goal is to become a
cyborg, in the physical universe, with characteristics similar to those
I describe in my writings. My plan for the next million
calendar/wall-clock years is to enjoy that body. It should be noted that
my cyborg species has a considerable variety of physical configurations
I have not yet decided which of those I will actually make use of.
Now what's prompting me to write this post? Like any conscientious
person, I need to periodically re-evaluate my strategies for reaching my
near and long term goals. Especially while reading Eliasmith, I'm
gaining a non-negligible amount of [over]confidence that I actually have
a viable approach to solving AGI. This means that I urgently need to
disabuse myself of that over-confidence by means of the Real World (tm).
So, five years ago, I started sketching out a robotics lab. At first I
wanted to use a robotic arm in a constructed room. Then the NAO came out
and so that's my current target. My hardware budget for this project is
around $40,000. I have been struggling with unemployment but, even
still, I have roughly $12,000 in savings for that project. Things are
getting really urgent here so I need to find a way to get past my
financial difficulties.
The other approach to this problem, of course, is to use a VR
environment. The ZeroState list has a substantial number of people who
want to/believe that it is inevitable that they will live out many
billions of years of subjective experience in VR. I somehow got it in my
head that they would be willing to actually lift a finger to construct
such a VR... I was wrong. =(
Meanwhile, in the real world, progress is moving forward, have a look at
this upcoming game: http://www.botcolony.com/game/technology/
It uses speech recognition and NLP as it's user interface!
I simply don't have the resources to even bootstrap a VR environment
myself. My programming knowledge just doesn't extend into Javascript and
web client-end technologies. =( Furthermore, developing a VR sucks
massive amounts of time away from what I need to develop the AGI, which
is what I really need.
It looks like I'll need a few million dollars to get this bootstrapped,
which means I will need a business plan... But then I want the entire
thing to be open source.... =\
It looks like Kickstarter is my next stop; get some trained monkeys to
do the VR for me. =P
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