>I believe that as evidence of AGI (e. g. software that can learn >from reading) becomes widely known: (1) the military will provide abundant >funding - possibly in excess of what commercial firms could do without a >consortium (2) public outcry will assure that military AGI development >has civilian and academic oversight.
Steve, Ben, do you have any gauge as too what kind of grants are hot right now or what kind of narrow AI projects with AGI implications have recently been funded through military agencies? On Wed, 12 Feb 2003, Brad Wyble wrote: > And while I'm not entirely optimistic about the practicality of > building ethics into AI's, I think we should certainly try, and that > rules military funding right out. Yeah, it seems like somewhat of a *moral compromise* to pursue narrow AI research funding with the hopes of creating doing work which may help to one day create AGI. Or as Sartre said: "you cannot act without dirtying your hands." The only way the small AGI movement will amount to anything in the immediate future is through winning grants and making publications. We have some articulate people posting on this list. Perhaps one of the purposes of this mailing-list group should to establish a community of credentialed researchers for the purpose of co-authorship and helping each other write grant applications. Peace, Daniel ------- To unsubscribe, change your address, or temporarily deactivate your subscription, please go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?[EMAIL PROTECTED]
