On Oct 30, 2007 4:59 AM, Joshua Fox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Surely Marvin Minsky -- a top MIT professor, with a world-beating > reputation in multiple fields -- can snap his fingers and get all the > required funding, whether commercial or non-profit, for AGI projects which > he initiates or supports? > > Joshua >
Surely not. Minsky's proposals will be evaluated carefully like anyone else's; that's the way academia works. There is an old-boy network, sure, but there's also a lot of formal peer review process. And if you look at The Emotion Machine, it's clear that his proposals as a whole are at a very high level and most of them are a long way from being ready for implementation. Most of them are really AI-oriented cog-sci rather than AI design or algorithm proposals per se. Push Singh's work embodied a small fraction of Minsky's recent AI proposals, and I would imagine that further funding for that work could be achieved from typical gov't AI funding sources. Industry is not interested in funding AI research, by and large. I imagine that if Marvin Minsky went to industry with an extremely-well-fleshed-out, ambitious AGI design then after a dozen meetings he might get someone to bite. But he doesn't have that design. (I do, but I'm not Marvin Minsky ;-) -- Ben G ----- 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=8660244&id_secret=58994048-8e04d8
