On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 9:26 PM, Ben Goertzel <[email protected]> wrote: > Would you be surprised if a ragtag group of OSS developers made a better OS > than Microsoft, IBM or Apple -- one used to power 97% or so of the Internet > ?
Actually the market share for Linux is 1.64%. http://www.netmarketshare.com/operating-system-market-share.aspx?qprid=10&qpcustomd=0 And the total development effort is quite substantial, similar to Windows. The difference is in how the work is funded. In the open source model, information has negative value. You sell yourself by giving away your work. I think a distributed AGI can be funded this way too. But only if there is some compelling reason to use it before it is fully developed. > I don't think an AGI has to pretend to be human ... Yes, we agree on that. Unless we are talking about applications like uploading or identity theft. But once we solve the problem of modeling human minds, it is a simple matter to program them to carry out their predictions of your actions in real time. -- -- Matt Mahoney, [email protected] ------------------------------------------- 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
