On Nov 18, 2007 12:50 AM, Dennis Gorelik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Benjamin,
>
> Do you have any success stories of such research funding in the last
> 20 years?
> Something that resulted in useful accomplishments.
Are you asking for success stories regarding research funding in any domain,
or regarding research funding in AGI?
Obviously, there are not yet any real success stories regarding research
funding in AGI. But this is because
-- Due to advances in computing hardware and cognitive science, AGI is
just now (meaning, "in the last 3-8 years", say), for the first time, at a
stage
where serious advances can be made
-- The small amount of $$ put into AGI research has almost entirely focused
on an even smaller set of conceptual approaches ("GOFAI"),
which are deeply problematic for reasons already extensively discussed on
this list
There were no success stories regarding manned spaceflight before Apollo ...
there
were no success stories for genome-sequencing before it was first done, etc.
You seem to have gone from
-- advocating funding only for development rather than research
to
-- advocating funding only for research in mature fields where there have
already
been dramatic successes
I don't think either of these is an adequate funding strategy.
-- Ben G
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