Benjamin Goertzel wrote:
Hi,The majority of VC's do, as you say, want a technology that is sewn up, from the point of view of technical feasibility. But this is not always true. There is always a gray area at the fringe of feasibility where the last set of questions has not been *fully* answered before money is thrown at it. I believe this happened in a number of projects duringthe dot-com insanity.A lot of things were possible in that period that aren't possible during normal business conditions... If I am right in this last idea, VCs have a stark choice: if they want AGI, they have to relax their insistence on a project that does not have that last "research" step. If they insist on something stronger, they can kiss goodbye to ever getting an AGI. Well, VC's don't give a crap about AGI, at least not in their capacity as VC's. They just want to make $$ in a certain way, according to a certain risk profile...
Actually yes, I was forgetting myself: I meant "investors" generally, rather than VCs.
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