Certainly there are many ways to slay the beast. And the beast has many definitions. For an open source AGI you'd have to not throw in the kitchen sink, come up was a very basic design and maybe not tout how the thing is going to trigger a singularity? Maybe not try to replicate human brain functionality? I would do AGI as generalized AI. And I personally think that it is a model of specialized mathematics put into code to achieve this. But yeah there needs to be design impetus and if the design is not there at the beginning or is not adequate the project could churn indefinitely or just sputter.
I do think OS AGI is doable and it may take fulltime funded individuals to do it. Software AGI will be larger than most OS applications. Seems to be certain thresholds on lines of code in open source projects. Someone should do a study and graph the number of lines of code to see the distribution across all projects. Not too many over a certain size. Also there should be a study on the complexity of the code. Not too many that are extremely complex. AGI will be complex, if not the most complex. Though there are a few large and very complex projects. Building very complex large projects without funds is rare. To be able to concentrate for months and years while paying the bills is tough, and doing it part time is challenging as well. But a person may be employed by an organization and be able to work on a separate AGI project. I have been in this position. The organization might only be able to dedicate one person to do this and other organizations may be in the same situation. There are many ways to achieve resources... OS AGI or yes even commercial AGI - large potential for failure. May be more advisable to put efforts into a project already far down the road? John From: YKY (Yan King Yin) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 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. ----- 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
