> >Well hey, if you guys ever want to seriously collaborate with an > AGI team, > >let me know ;) > > Sure, but this is imho 6-12 months away, because at the moment > narrow-AI is > much easier and lucrative for us. I'am sure, that we'll reach the day when > AGI is cheaper than narrow-AI.
I don't think AGI will ever become cheaper than narrow AI generically. In terms of computational cost, in the mid-term future, I guess there will be * some apps where it's cheaper to use a narrow-AI solution * some apps where there are both narrow-AI and AGI solutions, but the AGI solution is actually cheaper * some apps where narrow-AI just can't do the job Currently, AGI is more expensive than narrow AI not just in terms of computing time but in terms of * time to development * cost of development [more time and more expertise are needed] Thus, commercial deployment of AGI or even AGI-ish technologies is naturally going to be limited to areas where the quality of behavior provided by narrow AI systems just isn't satisfactory. In the case of bioinformatics, for instance, I believe there are a lot of highly pertinent patterns in biological data that narrow AI methods are not seeing. Having software that can see these patterns is of great commercial value. How full of an AGI one needs for this isn't clear at this point, but it's clear that one needs something with vastly more general intelligence than current narrow AI software. I find it quite credible that for your business at the moment, the time and financial cost of going in an AGI direction doesn't make business sense. If you had funding to just "build stuff" for 3-5 years and then launch a product and worry about selling it, it would be a different story. > > i hope that a robust narrow-AI chat-software is a good interface/gateway > for a AGI-system. I'am looking for the cheapest combination to start. > I have doubts about how "robust" you can make narrow-AI chat software. Unlike narrow-AI chess software, I believe narrow-AI chat software is always going to basically suck. However, it may serve some specific narrowly-defined business needs well, in spite of its suckage judged by the standards of flexible human conversation... -- Ben G ------- To unsubscribe, change your address, or temporarily deactivate your subscription, please go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/
