"No. We're working on an AGI mind via the open source OpenCog project. As another project, I'm working with a separate team on a financial prediction system, which utilizes some OpenCog components along with a load of other stuff.."
So OpenCog is not even founded right? It's a weekend project, no? "how do you know the Ben observed at conferences isn't a body double" That is a very good point Ben. I always get you AGI researchers mixed up with people like this http://iacknowledge.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/homeless-and-addiction.jpg ;) "A government could of course fork OpenCog and do stuff with it. What I meant is that they couldn't tractably "take over" the project in the sense of capturing it and making it wholly internal to themselves.." Have you seen the trailer for http://youtu.be/VCTen3-B8GU ? On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 11:51 PM, Ben Goertzel <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 2:40 PM, Azn A <[email protected]> wrote: > >> "So an initial working version of OpenCog is better analogized to the >> Linux kernel, plus enough non-kernel stuff to make the thing usable and >> demonstrable in some significant way.... Then once that core version has >> been excitingly demonstrated, getting a lot of support code built to >> connect the core OpenCog system to loads of other stuff will be easier, and >> will be more analogous to the build-out of the rest of the OpenCog system." >> >> So you're working on building an AGI mind via a financial prediction >> system? Interesting.. >> > > > > No. We're working on an AGI mind via the open source OpenCog project. > As another project, I'm working with a separate team on a financial > prediction system, which utilizes some OpenCog components along with a load > of other stuff... > > > >> >> "Because one of our major thrusts is natural language processing; and >> apes and racoons have very limited English capability" >> >> so do babies >> > > > Yes, hence the goal of an "AGI toddler" not an infant ;) > > >> >> "But recall, I lived in DC for 9 years and did a bit of military and >> intel AI consulting. I know what that part of the world wants." >> >> That was in the 80's. This is 2014. >> > > No, I lived/worked in DC from 2002- late 2011 ... not in the 80s ... > > >> Siri (the Apple app) is a spin-out from the SRI International Artificial >> Intelligence Center, and is an offshoot of the DARPA-funded CALO >> project. DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) is an agency of >> the United States Department of Defense responsible for the development of >> new technologies for use by the military. If any of your stuff actually >> worked, I'm sure they would be interested. >> > > Yeah, I've worked on various DARPA and IARPA projects before. Those > agencies have their own peculiar ways of doing things, which I don't feel > like taking time to describe on this list... > > >> >> "None of the core team really has a mindset that wants to work for a >> gov't or a big company.... We all consider building an open source >> thinking machine more important than that. Note Linas Torvalds has not >> been recruited to work for a big company or the gov't either.." >> >> Nonsense, Torvalds was recruited by Steve Jobs himself to work on Mac OS X >> > > I meant that Linus Torvalds was not successfully recruited, obviously.. ;p > > *** > > What, did you miss the opening scene in ironman where is looked in a cave > and forced to build stuff? You might want to invest in some security Ben. > *** > > How do you know the Ben observed at conferences isn't a body double? ;D > > *** > "This sort of open source project is not particularly well set up for any > particular government to take it over.." > > Why not? All your work is online and once there is a kernel it would be > easy to build the rest as you say :) > *** > > A government could of course fork OpenCog and do stuff with it. What I > meant is that they couldn't tractably "take over" the project in the sense > of capturing it and making it wholly internal to themselves... > > -- Ben G > > *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 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
