On Mon, 2 Dec 2002, Ben Goertzel wrote: > > Stephen Read wrote: > > As Cycorp is the best funded company among those organizations with AGI as > > their primary goal, I would state that for us enrichment is not the > > motive. > > Steve, I accept this as an honest statement of your personal motivations. > > However, I'm not sure that Cycorp's investors would endorse such a > statement, would they?
Cycorp is mostly an employee owned company and my remarks apply only to the employee owners. Private investors and VCs we approach would not agree with my own point of view. > I'm sure they would prefer to endorse a statement such as "Cycorp's mission > is to make a healthy profit via powerful AI technology." Agreed. > If given the choice between more profits and better AI, I am betting they > would choose the former.... For this reason, using Symantec and Teknowledge companies as the examples of AI gone commercial, current Cycorp management will not sell majority equity to outsiders without some organizational mechanism to preserve the Cyc Project. -- =========================================================== Stephen L. Reed phone: 512.342.4036 Cycorp, Suite 100 fax: 512.342.4040 3721 Executive Center Drive email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Austin, TX 78731 web: http://www.cyc.com download OpenCyc at http://www.opencyc.org =========================================================== ------- To unsubscribe, change your address, or temporarily deactivate your subscription, please go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?[EMAIL PROTECTED]
