As I posted to this mailing list a few months ago,  I have a list (now
including 10 projects) that:

  a.. Each of them has the plan to eventually grow into a "thinking machine"
or "artificial general intelligence" (so it is not merely about part of AI);
  b.. Each of them has been carried out for more than 5 years (so it is more
than a PhD project);
  c.. Each of them has prototypes or early versions finished (so it is not
merely a theory), and there are some publications explaining how it works
(so it is not merely a claim).
Ben has a similar list at http://www.agiri.org/agilinks.htm.

If by "serious AI efforts" you don't restrict the field to AGI (or "strong
AI", "real AI", and so on), then there are hundreds of projects with more
that 5 man years worth of effort.

Pei

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From: "Damien Sullivan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, December 30, 2002 5:57 PM
Subject: Re: [agi] Early Apps.


> > Gary Miller wrote:
>
> > > That being said other than Cyc I am at a loss to name any serious AI
> > > efforts which are over a few years in duration and have more that 5
man
> > > years worth of effort (not counting promotional and fundraising).
>
> No offense, but I suspect you need to read more of the literature.  I
still am
> rather clueless about the field, and I can name a few such projects.  In
> Hofstadter's lab both the Metacat and Letter Spirit projects are each the
> product of roughly a man-decade of effort, one man (or woman) at a time.
The
> Tabletop project might count as more effort in the same design, not to
mention
> Copycat's precursors.  It's likely that someone will be working on
extending
> Metacat soon.
>
> Elsewhere, there's the ACT-R project at CMU, formerly ACT-*, about which I
> know very little, but it seems to have been around for a while.  At
Indiana
> University David Leake's case-based reasoning project seems to have
multiple
> grad students, probably pushing it over 5 man years quickly, although if
by
> "serious AI" you meant "general AI now" it might not qualify.
>
> -xx- Damien X-)
>
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