Linas: > I find it telling that no one is saying "I've got the code, I just need to > scale it up > 1000-fold to make it impressive ..."
Yes, that's an accurate comment. Novamente will hopefully reach that point in a few years. For now, we will need (and use) a lotta machines for commercial product deployment purposes. But for R&D purposes, it's all about solving a large number of moderate-sized computer science and AI research problems, that are connected together via the overall NM AGI design. Once these problems are all worked through and we have a completed Novamente codebase then we will be far better able to evaluate what our hardware requirements actually are. I am pretty sure they will be large. But right now, having masses of hardware wouldn't accelerate our progress all that much. What is useful to us is money to pay the right brains to solve the long list of apparently-not-that-huge technical problems between here and a completed Novamente system. And of course there is always a nonzero risk that one of these apparently-not-that-huge technical problems will turn out to be huge; but, a lot of thinking has gone on over a number of years in a serious attempt to avoid this... -- Ben ----- 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=68394009-e1d34e
