--- Bill Hibbard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi Stephen, > > As a small operation independent of Cyc, > distributing > your AGI system as open source is likely to be a > good > strategy. Thanks Bill for the encouragement. By the way I purchased and enjoyed your book "Super-intelligent Machines". > I am a bit > skeptical > whether legal wording in the license will restrain > developers from making divergent versions - as a > small > operation, are you really prepared to take violators > to > court? But if your design makes divergence less > necesary, > most developers will see the advantage of a unified > version that permits sharing. What I have in mind is an AI that understands the justification for each of it's actions, whether self-initiated or performed to directly fulfil a user's request. I want the system to obey the law of the country in which it operates and the policies of the communities to which the user belongs. Such a distributed AI can be governed in a hierarchical control structure, i.e. along the lines proposed by James Albus. I wonder if the open source software license could have conditions that ensure that central control is effective. Diversity would occur as the AI learns how to benefit each particular user and shares generalizations of these friendly activities with like users everywhere. Cheers. -Steve __________________________________________________ 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]
