Hi, In practice, the course we're taking with Novamente is fairly "intermediate," similar to the one discussed by Pei in his reply to your email.
We will publish the overall design of the AI system and much of the related mathematics and cognitive science. But we don't have plans to open-source the Novamente code. One factor is that we don't think open-sourcing would really help the project much. This isn't the sort of thing that random contributors around the world can really help with -- to contribute to the project requires a lot of specialized learning, and tight cooperation with the rest of the team. I think that open-source projects can help AGI efforts generally though. For instance, it would be great to see an open-source project making a simulation world for AGI teaching/training. -- Ben G > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Behalf Of Shane Legg > Sent: Friday, March 05, 2004 4:42 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [agi] Open AGI? > > > Hi all, > > I'm curious about the general sentiments that people have > about the appropriate level of openness for an AGI project. > > My mind certainly isn't made up on the issue and I can see > reasons for going either way. If a single individual or > small group of people made a sudden break through in AGI > design this would place a huge amount of power in their > hands. I could easily see this situation being dangerous. > On the other hand I'm not sure that I'd want too many people > knowing how to do it either! Already the world seems to > have a few too many people who have the detailed knowledge > required to build a working nuclear weapon for example. > > What are your thoughts? Surely this has been debated > many times before I suppose? > > Cheers > Shane > > ------- > To unsubscribe, change your address, or temporarily deactivate > your subscription, > please go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/[EMAIL PROTECTED] > ------- To unsubscribe, change your address, or temporarily deactivate your subscription, please go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
