Hi,:
I like the business discussion, this list has too much useless debate
regarding non-issues like mind uploading, it would be great to see more
discussion on how to get funding for AGI research, what is the killer
app of a component of an AGI, etc.
However I don't see the attraction of this proposal. Building a
successful startup requires a lot of efforts and luck, and the success
rate is very low (less than 10%). Ifthis is my own idea that I think
could lead to AGI, then I may invest say 5 to 10 years of my life to
make it happen, but for someone else idea that doesn't have much
relation to AGI, I don't see why I should bother...
Thanks
On 10/28/2015 6:20 AM, Steve Richfield wrote:
Hi all,
I have been learning a LOT while looking for funding - which suggests
we should all rethink our respective directions.
The Jobs 2012 act made it possible to crowdfund projects not exceeding
$10M without going through the whole SEC public offering hassle. Then
along came sites like Kickstarter with their own visions for the
future which does NOT include larger visions like those shared here.
However, there are places like EquityNet in which larger ideas appear
fundable, provided they don't bump up against $10M.
When you look at ENTIRE projects including marketing, patent defense,
etc., rather than just getting to a demo, $10M is really tight no
matter what you are doing, especially if it involves any R&D. My own
project to take over the Internet projected $10M when everything
foreseeable was added in.
So, I had an idea for an end-around where many of us here could get
rich - and be well paid as we get rich. Further, this will provide a
stepping stone to even bigger things - maybe even an eventual AGI.
Chop my project up into the separately marketable pieces needed to
make the system to take over the Internet, and construct them in
separately funded corporations under a single umbrella. This way, each
startup would be going into this with guaranteed customers, etc. The
separate startups would include:
1. The core parsing and recognition technology
2. A smart web crawler that also gathers contact information, etc.
3. An idiom database with a few thousand common idioms and equivalent
straightforward text
4. A medical database ala DrEliza only greatly extended
5. An AI marketing organization
6. An Internet sales organization
7. etc.
Note that these pieces can be combined in various ways to make several
strong products, e.g. NO ONE is going to write good code to understand
text without the idiom database - and nothing like it now exists.
You can see the publicly-disclosed parts of the plan by reading the
patent at:
http://www.google.com/patents/US8788263
Also, there are other subsequent applications now in the "mill".
To make this work for you, we would work together to create a
crowdfundable entity that you would be in charge of, to actually get
paid well to do the work on the part of this project that you choose.
These would be presented together as a package, but each would also
have a marketing plan to survive and thrive outside of the package.
This way, you would start with a salary and customers waiting, rather
than building something for nothing, in the hope that customers will
come, and further, there would have patent protection for at least
some parts of these projects.
Once you get your part up and running, you will have both money and
credibility to build your own projects, rather than pieces of
something else.
Any interest in leading the charge to develop one of these pieces?
Steve
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