Eliezer,
Shane, what would you do if you had your headway? Say, you won the
lottery tomorrow (ignoring the fact that no rational person would buy a
ticket). Not just "AGI" - what specifically would you sit down and do
all day?
I've got a list of things I'd like to be working on. For example, I'd like to
try to build a universal test of machine intelligence, I've also got ideas in
the area of genetic algorithms, neural network architectures, and some
more theoretical things related to complexity theory and AI. I also want to
spend more time learning neuroscience. I think my best shot at building
an AGI will involve bringing ideas from many of these areas together.
Indeed not. It takes your first five years simply to figure out which
way is up. But Shane, if you restrict yourself to results you can
regularly publish, you couldn't work on what you really wanted to do,
even if you had a million dollars.
If I had a million dollars I wouldn't care so much about my "career"
as I wouldn't be dependent on the academic system to pay my bills.
As such I'd only publish once, or perhaps twice, a year and would
spend more time on areas of research that were more likely to fail
or would require large time investments before seeing results.
Shane
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