Alex, I've appreciated your messages and hope you'll continue to post. Alan, let's try to keep the tone a little more pleasant huh? Criticizing Alex's work is perfectly appropriate, but just saying "I don't like it because it reminds me of Cyc" isn't really a meaningful criticism. [Especially because his work actually is very different in approach from Cyc, with its strong statistics & machine learning focus...!!]
About Cyc: I have my differences with Cyc's philosophy, but Stephen Reed's Cognitive Cyc project is very interesting to me. And I have to give Cyc credit for being a serious attempt at AGI even though I disagree with much of its underlying philosophy.. As for Alex's work, I think it sounds like solid narrow-AI work, with possibilities of being a (business & technical) platform for AGI in the future. If the business practicalities worked out, it would be interesting to collaborate with his group, which seems to be building an excellent practical framework for experimentation with self-improving chat-based AI. -- Ben G > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On > Behalf Of Alexander E. Richter > Sent: Sunday, November 17, 2002 6:24 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [agi] Language translation by computer > > > At 17:45 17.11.02 -0800, you wrote: > >If this had been posted to my "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" ML, I would > >have declared it in violation of my NO CYC policy and put the sender on > >notice. =\ > > I am looking for some AGI-people to cooperate and funding their work (we > are earning money with our software). To get a good cooperation i need to > tell were we are now and in next months, but i have no time for > flamewars. > > bye Alex > > ------- > To unsubscribe, change your address, or temporarily deactivate > your subscription, > please go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/ > ------- To unsubscribe, change your address, or temporarily deactivate your subscription, please go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/
