On 5/11/07, Samantha Atkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I tend to agree. Many hands and eyeballs are great for a project of many relatively isolatable components whose requirements and interaction are relatively understood. But AGI is pushing the envelope tremendously and, to the degree I understand current designs and design strategies, a set of very tightly inter-related parts need to be designed and build. Many of the parts themselves much less their interaction are being created and integrated out of whole cloth. Small, high bandwidth, concentrated and brilliant teams are required. The vast majority of all programmers/hackers are not qualified. Even of the number that is only a small subset can be formed into a cohesive enough team for this intense a task. If anything is likely to be a natural cathedral rather than a bazaar it is AGI.
Well there are two phases, framework and content. The framework is as you say: it needs to be a cathedral. The content needs to be of volume such that only a whole industry can create it: definitely a bazaar. The hard part then is designing a framework such as to allow content to easily flow together. Compare it to the Web: the first browser was created by an individual or small team, but the Web itself was not. ----- This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: http://v2.listbox.com/member/?member_id=231415&user_secret=fabd7936
