--- Russell Wallace <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> A serious AGI will have to end up making Google look > like those '10 PRINT > "HELLO": GOTO 10' programs we used to write on our > childhood 8-bit > computers. Agreed. > If everyone just downloads their own copy > and tweaks it > separately from everyone else's, the sum total of > value generated will be > effectively zero. Yes, but suppose the government of China decides to download an open source AGI and install it on one or more of their Top 500 supercomputer facilities? Certain indivuals may have vast compute resources at their disposal. > Now, I don't think I'd have the license say "you > must donate CPU cycles in > payment for using this" both because I don't see any > way to enforce it and > because it would justifiably annoy people who want > to e.g. play with it on a > laptop without an Internet connection. Let me elaborate: I am considering a primary deployment for my open source project using Jabber, an open source chat protocal adopted by Google Chat among others. Any user could just chat with the AGI. If they want the AGI to perform tasks for them on their own computer, then they would download some components and be subject to the constraints of the license. >From public research soliciations I know that the US CIA is interested in AI to assist their intelligence analysts. If they were to download and intall an open source AGI they would permit policy control from the unclassified side, e.g. not violate US laws, but no information could come out of a classified software component back to the central, completely open AGI. > What I would consider doing (haven't thought very > much about this so far, > might be flaws in the idea, but I think it's at > least worth a look) if I > were going to do open source AGI, is take an idea > from GPL and say: You may > do anything you like with this on your own PC, but > you may not _distribute_ > an incompatible version. Any modified version that > gets distributed, must > seamlessly hook into the network of other copies. Exactly, how to detect evil modifications is a safety issue. > ------- > To unsubscribe, change your address, or temporarily > deactivate your subscription, > please go to > http://v2.listbox.com/member/[EMAIL PROTECTED] > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ------- To unsubscribe, change your address, or temporarily deactivate your subscription, please go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
