From: "Ben Goertzel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >So far our work in this area has been more in the vein of "narrow AI using a >half-completed wannabe-AGI system", but I'm curious to see how the molecular >biology software applications make use of the AGI capabilities of Novamente >when/if they finally become real... > >Quite frankly, our motivation for working in this area has largely been >pragmatic. We couldn't seem to get funding for pure AI research so we had >to choose one or more application areas. I'm very interested in life >extension research and in understanding the molecular basis of life >generally, so applying our AI tech in these domains seemed a "natural."
I'm also extremely interested in biological applications, but maybe your choice is biased by your (emotional) preference for science and is actually not optimal / rational. By looking at some employment statistics, I guesstimate the most profitable AI applications should be retail and food industries, and slowly work its way up more complex areas (eg health care such as robotic surgery or medical expert systems etc), and then even more complex ones such as those requiring natural language understanding, and other cognitive abilities. Unless you think AGI does not need this bottom-up approach... but who knows if we have not underestimated the complexity of AGI? YKY ____________________________________________________________ Find what you are looking for with the Lycos Yellow Pages http://r.lycos.com/r/yp_emailfooter/http://yellowpages.lycos.com/default.asp?SRC=lycos10 ------- To unsubscribe, change your address, or temporarily deactivate your subscription, please go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
