So what can other AGI entrepreneurs learn from the recent big-$$ infusions to Deep Mind (via acquisition) and Vicarious (by investment)?
The main lesson I take from this is the obvious one, that a great **really working** (not quasi faked up) demo goes a long way... Vicarious beat CAPTCHA http://www.kurzweilai.net/vicarious-ai-breaks-captcha-turing-test -- an accomplishment very easy for any Internet user to understand The Deep Mind demo that impressed Larry Page was the ability to beat simple video games via reinforcement learning http://hn.meteor.com/posts/7135816-68640 Note that (analogously to IBM Watson), both of these demos involve making the AI meet a challenge that was not defined by the AI makers themselves, but was rather judiciously plucked from the space of challenges posed by the human world.... I.e.: doing something easily visually appreciable, that previously only humans could do... Clearly Deep Mind and Vicarious did not excel particularly in terms of *business model*, as compared to many other firms out there... Other, also fairly obvious points from these acquisitions are: 1) For an acquihire-flavored acquisition at a high price, you really want a team of engineers in a First World country, who look like the profile of people the acquiring company would want to hire. 2) Having well-connected, appropriately respected early investors goes a long way. Vicarious and Deep Mind both had Founders Fund investment. Of course FF investment didn't save Halcyon Molecular, so it's no guarantee, but having the right early-stage investors is certainly valuable.. ... -- Ben G On Sat, Mar 22, 2014 at 1:13 PM, Ben Goertzel <[email protected]> wrote: > > I would prefer to make AGI open source, not within a megacorporation... > > > On Sat, Mar 22, 2014 at 1:10 PM, Azn A <[email protected]> wrote: > >> How much have they offered you Ben? If DeepMind can sell for 500 million >> with just a few ideas, they should be offering you truck loads right? ;) >> >> >> On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 9:04 PM, Piaget Modeler < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >>> And so it continues. >>> >>> 500 million for DeepMind >>> 40+ million for Vicarious >>> >>> Who's next? >>> >>> ~PM >>> >>> ------------------------------ >>> Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2014 20:56:40 -0700 >>> Subject: [agi] Elon Musk And Mark Zuckerberg Have Invested $40 Million >>> In a so called Artificial Intelligence Company >>> From: [email protected] >>> To: [email protected] >>> >>> >>> >>> http://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-mark-zuckerberg-invest-in-vicarious-2014-3 >>> >>> Does that upset you? aha >>> *AGI* | Archives <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now> >>> <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/19999924-4a978ccc> | >>> Modify <https://www.listbox.com/member/?&;> Your Subscription >>> <http://www.listbox.com> >>> *AGI* | Archives <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now> >>> <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/10514698-9a8cda1e> | >>> Modify <https://www.listbox.com/member/?&;> Your Subscription >>> <http://www.listbox.com> >>> >> >> *AGI* | Archives <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now> >> <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/212726-deec6279> | >> Modify<https://www.listbox.com/member/?&;>Your Subscription >> <http://www.listbox.com> >> > > > > -- > Ben Goertzel, PhD > http://goertzel.org > > "In an insane world, the sane man must appear to be insane". -- Capt. > James T. Kirk > > "Emancipate yourself from mental slavery / None but ourselves can free our > minds" -- Robert Nesta Marley > -- Ben Goertzel, PhD http://goertzel.org "In an insane world, the sane man must appear to be insane". -- Capt. James T. Kirk "Emancipate yourself from mental slavery / None but ourselves can free our minds" -- Robert Nesta Marley ------------------------------------------- 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
