Hi Ben,
I'm not really interested in "open source" in the software sense in
particular, but rather openness in general. Of course if you open
source the code then the project is very open in general too!
I see that you run sort of an intermediate approach here, as does Pei.
Peter takes a more closed approach with A2I2, which probably reflects
his background in business rather than academia. Others like James
Rogers take a very closed approach; in fact I don't think I have ever
seen a document describing what he is working on? If there are more
closed projects out there.... well we probably wouldn't even hear
about them in that case ;-)
I understand your desire to limit the number of people working on your
code out of purely practical reasons also. However with the emphasis
on genetic algorithms in vetta I have another reason to open up the
project --- I might actually need the participation of many people
donating their CPU time in order to obtain sufficient computer power.
I figure that if the Search for ExtraTerrestrial Intelligence (SETI)
has managed to get 2 million years of CPU time then perhaps a few
people out there would also be interested in donating CPU time for a
Search for Artificial General Intelligence. Unfortunately SAGI is
a really bad sounding name! So vetta it remains. With millions of
years of computer time simulating billions of generations on a very
large population of learning networks perhaps some interesting
evolution could start to take place. However by taking this road
the project would be very open as I'd be literally distributing the
design of the system as it evolved to a large number of computers
all around the world on a regular basis. I'm not sure that this
much openness would be a good thing... this is why I got thinking
about this question.
Cheers
Shane
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