J. Andrew Rogers wrote:
On Nov 18, 2007, at 7:06 PM, Benjamin Goertzel wrote:
Navigating complex social and business situations requires a quite
different set of capabilities than creating AGI. Potentially they could
be combined in the same person, but one certainly can't assume that
would be the case.
I completely agree. But if we are to assume that AGI requires some
respectable amount of funding, as seems to be posited by many people,
then it seems that it will require a person with broader skills than the
stereotypical computer science nerd.
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Funny thing was that you started this line of thought when talking to
me, and it originally looked like I was the target of the "AGI ... will
require a person with broader skills than the stereotypical computer
science nerd"...
I can't help but point out that I am the last person to fit that
description, having been a physicist, then (briefly) an archaeologist,
then a parapsychologist, a cognitive scientist, a software engineer and
(most recently) the CTO of an embedded-system startup.
I mean, my faults are legion, but being a stereotypical computer science
nerd ain't one of them. ;-)
Richard Loosemore
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