On 6/14/07, John G. Rose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Even if YKY was to succeed in coming up with a new hybrid organizational
structure, which could likely happen as there are definitely opportunities for innovation judging by existing structures, there still needs to be the traditional open source project that everybody and his brother(or sister) can go in and get a piece of without any strings attached. You go online, search for AGI, find it on SourceForge or similar, download and compile. If you like it enough you start working on it submitting changes and code improvements. With AGI there should be mechanisms i.e. forums and email lists, like this one, where non-developers contribute and "work" on it since a large amount of priceless input comes from learned individuals in various related fields. There does have to be a couple movers and shakers to get the thing started, just building up a skeleton and framework is a huge amount of work.
Hi John, I'm sympathetic to opensource, but I'm afraid an OS AGI is unlikely to happen. You'd need 1 or 2 person who has the background knowledge (requiring at least a couple years of intensive study) and the determination to start it, but most people who have gone that far, are unlikely to give it out for free. Someone can try, but I'd wait and see. I have started an AGI project before, and we were undecided whether to go OS or not. What happened was: 1. about 80+ people signed up 2. 20-30 have talked only once, and never spoke again 3. ~5 are regularly talking, discussing things with me 4. no one except me have contributed code 5. the project is now inactive I think the reason is simply that AGI is very hard and it's not easy to get people to understand what the project is doing. YKY ----- 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=e9e40a7e
