Prediction: Without a significant overhaul of their strategy, that $Billion will create another stratum in the 65+ years of layers of narrow-AI. Deeper into the niches. Useful.... But ...
Deep automation (their 'digital intelligence') is not AGI. How many years more before the 65 year old, many-$Billion experiment (that AGI involves computers) is found suspect enough to spend, say, $11.37 on the obvious alternative? End of year gripe. Am about to turn 60. My curmudgeon index is redlining. :) Colin -----Original Message----- From: "Ben Goertzel" <[email protected]> Sent: 14/12/2015 2:21 PM To: "AGI" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [agi] Elon Musk Helps Launch OpenAI, Non-Profit Dedicated toArtificial Intelligence - Funding: 1 billion USD My first thoughts on OpenAi are here: http://wp.goertzel.org/openai-quick-thoughts/ On Sun, Dec 13, 2015 at 9:49 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: http://futurism.com/links/19499/ AGI | Archives | Modify Your Subscription -- Ben Goertzel, PhD http://goertzel.org "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man." -- George Bernard Shaw AGI | Archives | Modify Your Subscription ------------------------------------------- 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
