This an awesome interview! Will be following the fund closely next couple of years.
I have been lurking for quite some time and finally feel that I can compose a set of questions that will assist me with what I want to do. I welcome all of you to offer your input if you feel inclined and thank you in advance. I will first start with a short introduction: My name is Eric and build websites that generate ad revenue or leads for local businesses. It has been a very fun, profitable journey coming from a real estate investing background. I got started trying to rank my own website (for real estate) and turned it into a business. I am a born marketer and sales person as I found coming out of my shell from being an introverted IT nerd working on the networking hardware side. 2000 IT > 2005 Real Estate > 2013 Internet Marketing > Current. I first learned of AGI through Kurzweil - Singularity Is Near in the year 2012. I thought the ideas were mind blowing but just put to the back of my head. Having recently read a post on www.waitbutwhy.com about AI "God In A Box <http://waitbutwhy.com/2015/01/artificial-intelligence-revolution-1.html>" it renewed my interest. I have been on a tear soaking up information and confusing myself trying to drink from a fire hose. I have also watched Singularity or Bust, read 10 Years To the Singularity. Also various recorded talks on YT from Bostrom and others for varying opinions. The recent AMA <http://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/2xcyrl/i_am_j%C3%BCrgen_schmidhuber_ama/> with Jürgen Schmidhuber was very interesting. To my questions. Overall main goal: Learn great code from shit code and develop a SaaS company. (Entrepreneur in me) Secondary goals: Learn how to program ANI type softwares such as the one found at WordAI <http://wordai.com/>. Experiment with already available languages? such as OpenCog and PyBrain. And most importantly have fun learning how to program. I have no visions of grandeur about creating the next AGI. So they may seem basic but I need a start. Have plenty of time and resources to dedicate in this new journey. 1) What language should I start learning? LISP? Python? 2) Are those that attempting to build an AGI working it as a "program" or stand alone OS? 3) With machine learning more as a subset to overall AGI. What direction with ANN's; RNN's? MNN's? (Admittedly... by far the most confusing area for me currently) 4) Books? Blogs/Sites? 5) ? Your suggestions ? tl;dr Made money, now have time to learn a hobby, want to program ANI type software, but know nothing about programming. Most of you seem extremely intelligent and while my questions may seem basic/elementary I would appreciate your thoughts especially with all you have learned over the years. As I get a more generalized idea I can find specific forums for the more succinct answers I seek. Thanks again for your time. - Eric On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 11:18 PM, Ben Goertzel via AGI <[email protected]> wrote: > > http://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2015-03-17/predicting-the-markets-how-ai-can-help > > > ------------------------------------------- > AGI > Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now > RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/26957758-393ebbfd > Modify Your Subscription: > https://www.listbox.com/member/?&; > Powered by Listbox: 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
